Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:36 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:36 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01518634
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. First time refered patients fulfilling diagnostic criteria for BDS multi-organ type with symptoms for more than 3 of 4 symptom categories
2. Moderate or severe impact on daily life
3. Symptoms lasting for at least 2 years
4. Age 20-50 years
5. Born in Denmark or have Danish parents. The patient understands, speaks, writes and read Danish.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Presence og other physical of psychiatric condition, if the symptoms of this condition can not clearly be separated from symptoms of BDS
2. Current moderate or severe depression, patients in continuous antidepressant treatment because of moderate or severe depression, and patients with other severe psychiatric disorder that demands treatment, or if the patient is suicidal.
3. A lifetime-diagnosis of psychoses, mania or depression with psychotic symptoms (ICD-10: F20-29, F30-31, F32.3, F33.3)
4. Abuse of alcohol, narcotics or drugs
5. Pregnancy, breastfeeding or current pregnancy wish. Fertile women must use effective anticonception, (hormonal contraception, contraceptive injection, implant or patches, intrauterine system and device, vaginal ring).
6. Treatment with all pain modulating drugs, e.g. all analgesics, antidepressants, antiepileptica and other types of medication with pain relieving properties must be discontinued at least two weeks before the treatment phase.
7. Imipramine treatment in sufficient dosage within the last year, i.e. 25 mg daily continuously for at least 8 weeks.
8. Allergy to study medication or excipients in study medication.
9. Patients with previous med myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, signs of conduction defects or abnormalities on ECG (first degree AV-block, bundle branch block or prolonged QT-interval), narrow-angle glaucoma, porphyria, inherited galactose intolerance, epilepsy, hepatic insufficiency and severe renal impairment
10. Simultaneous use of:
* antipsychotics
* oral anticoagulants
* diuretics
* sympathomimetics and CNS-stimulating drugs (amphetamine-like drugs)
* all serotonergic drugs, e.g. SSRI, SNRI and TCA, the dietary supplement hypericum perforatum, non-selective, irreversible or selective, reversible monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors, triptans, tramadol, pethidin and tryptophan
* the drugs cimetidine (H2-antagonist), quinidine (antiarrythmics), clonidine (antihypertensive), fluconazol (antimycotics), clindamycin, clarithromycin, erythromycin (antibiotics), droperidol (anaesthetic), levodopa (antiparkinson), mefloquine (antimalaria), phenytoin, barbiturates, carbamazepin (antiepileptica)
* Bupropion (tobacco dependence), celecoxib (NSAID), cinacalcet (antiparathyroid drug), duloxetine (SNRI), flufenazin (antipsychotic), fluoxetin (SSRI), gefitinib (antineoplastic), moclobemid (MAO), paroxetine, Sertraline (SSRI), Terbinafine (antimycotics), Yohimbin (erectile dysfunction) samt fluvoxamin (SSRI), ciprofloxacin and enoxacin (microbiotic), because plasma concentration of Imipramine can increase with the simultaneous use of these potent CYP2D6- and CYP1A2- inhibitors
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
20 Years
Maximum Age:
50 Years
Study:
NCT01518634
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01518634