Eligibility Module

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 @ 3:00 AM
Ignite Modification Date: 2025-12-25 @ 3:00 AM
NCT ID: NCT03097133
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria: * Participant must meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition) (DSM-5) diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD), without psychotic features, based upon clinical assessment and confirmed by the Mini International Psychiatric Interview (MINI) * Participants must have current suicidal ideation with intent, confirmed by a "Yes" response to Question B3 \[Think (even momentarily) about harming or of hurting or of injuring yourself: with at least some intent or awareness that you might die as a result; or think about suicide (ie, about killing yourself)?\] AND Question B10 \[Intend to act on thoughts of killing yourself?\] obtained from the MINI * In the physician's opinion, acute psychiatric hospitalization is clinically warranted due to participant's imminent risk of suicide * Participant has a Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) total score of greater than (\>) 28 predose on Day 1 * As part of standard of care treatment, participant agrees to be hospitalized voluntarily for a recommended period of 14 days after randomization (may be shorter or longer if clinically warranted in the investigator's opinion) and take prescribed non-investigational antidepressant therapy(ies) for at least the duration of the double-blind treatment phase (Day 25) Exclusion Criteria: * Participant has a current DSM-5 diagnosis of bipolar (or related disorders), antisocial personality disorder, or obsessive compulsive disorder * Participant currently meets DSM-5 criteria for borderline personality disorder. Note: Participant not meeting full DSM-5 criteria for borderline personality disorder but exhibiting recurrent suicidal gestures, threats, or self-mutilating behaviors should also be excluded * Participant has a current clinical diagnosis of autism, dementia, or intellectual disability * Participant has a current or prior DSM-5 diagnosis of a psychotic disorder, or MDD with psychotic features * Participant meets the DSM-5 severity criteria for moderate or severe substance or alcohol use disorder, (except for nicotine or caffeine), within the 12 months before Screening. A history (lifetime) of ketamine, phencyclidine (PCP), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), or 3, 4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) hallucinogen-related use disorder is exclusionary * Participant has a history or current signs and symptoms of liver or renal insufficiency, clinically significant cardiac (including unstable coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure, tachyarrhythmias and recent myocardial infarction) or vascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrine (including uncontrolled hyperthyroidism), neurologic (including current or past history of seizures except uncomplicated childhood febrile seizures with no sequelae), hematologic, rheumatologic, or metabolic (including severe dehydration/ hypovolemia) disease * Participant has known allergies, hypersensitivity, intolerance or contraindications to esketamine or ketamine or its excipients
Healthy Volunteers: False
Sex: ALL
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 64 Years
Study: NCT03097133
Study Brief:
Protocol Section: NCT03097133