Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:33 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:33 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00177567
Brief Summary:
The purpose of this study is to collect pilot data on the feasibility of recruiting, eliciting informed consent, assessing, treating, and following patients aged 60 and older with bipolar mood disorders.
Detailed Description:
Study specific aims are:
* to establish a recruitment, referral, and collaborative network for elderly bipolar patients, in collaboration with the NIMH funded STEP-BD
* to establish an outpatient treatment clinic at the Bellefield Towers site of the NIMH funded Intervention Research Center for Late Life Mood Disorders
* to implement standardized care pathways compatible with STEP-BD treatment algorithms for mood stabilizing pharmacotherapy.
* to document short- and long-term treatment response with respect to affective symptoms, sleep, general life functioning, cognition, treatment-emergent side effects
* to establish the clinical infrastructure necessary for randomized controlled clinical trials and for clinical research training in bipolar mood disorders of late-life.
Study:
NCT00177567
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00177567