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:
2025-12-26 @ 11:00 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-26 @ 11:00 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01116206
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* History of chronic constipation, defined as on average, 2 or fewer spontaneous bowel movements (SBMs) per week and 1 or more of the following for at least a quarter of the time for the last 3 months, while symptom onset was more than 6 months before the screening visit: in more than 25 percent (%) of BMs, participants had very hard (little balls) and/or hard stools, sensation of incomplete evacuation, straining at defecation (making a bowel movement), sensation of ano-rectal obstruction or blockade, and/or need for digital manipulation to facilitate evacuation
* Participants who were considered as constipated (who never had SBMs)
* Participant's constipation is functional
* Participants with the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (bowel disorder in which there is pain and diarrhea or constipation) with constipation and with no other organic diseases can potentially be included depending on the decision of the investigator
* Female participants must be postmenopausal (for at least 1 year) or surgically sterile or practicing a highly effective method of birth control
Exclusion Criteria:
* Secondary to other diseases/conditions (endocrine disorders, metabolic disorders or neurologic disorders or drug-induced or suspected organic disorders of the large bowel, i.e., obstruction, carcinoma (type of cancer), or inflammatory bowel disease)
* \- Participants Using or intending to use disallowed medications that may influence the bowel habit during the study
* Participants with severe (very serious, life threatening) and clinically uncontrolled cardiovascular, liver, or lung disease, neurologic or psychiatric disorders (including active alcohol or drug abuse), cancer (abnormal tissue that grows and spreads in the body until it kills) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS: illness that results in decreased ability of the body to protect itself from other illnesses; development of the disease or conditions associated with the disease results from Human Immunodeficiency Virus \[HIV\]), or other gastrointestinal or endocrine disorders
* Participants with impaired renal function, that is, serum creatinine greater than 2 milligram per deciliter (greater than 180 micro mole per liter)
* Participants with clinically significant abnormalities of hematology, urinalysis, or blood chemistry
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
65 Years
Study:
NCT01116206
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01116206