Six-week medicine switch for schizophrenia after first treatment failure
Treatments studied
Part of Mental health clinical trials.
This trial tests whether a more intensive medication approach for schizophrenia (or related conditions) helps people who didn’t improve on their first tried medicine. Participants will usually switch medicines and be compared against “treatment as usual.”
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Who can take part
- You’re between 18 and 70 years old.
- You can give written consent (a legal guardian can help sign if allowed where you live).
- You are diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophreniform disorder.
- Your current episode didn’t respond to your current medicine (treatment failure) and you and your clinician plan to change the medicine.
- You have enough symptoms and daily-life problems to meet the study’s minimum thresholds.
- If you can get pregnant, you must use effective birth control and have a negative pregnancy test before randomization.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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