Patient Preference, Sleep Quality, and Anxiety/Depression: A Randomized Comparison of Etravirine and Efavirenz

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Efavirenz causes neuropsychiatric side effects and sleep disturbance, including vivid dreams, dizziness, and abnormal tiredness. These symptoms are frequent during the first weeks of treatment, with subsequent attenuation but may not completely resolve even years after efavirenz initiation.

The investigators plan a twelve week, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study. In group 1, efavirenz will be replaced with efavirenz placebo plus etravirine, in group 2, efavirenz would be continued, and etravirine placebo given in addition. After six weeks, patients in group 1 would switch to the regimen of group 2, and vice versa.

The primary endpoint of the trial will be patient preference. Sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, and anxiety will also be investigated.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Geneva
• Collaborators: Hospital Lugano; Hospital of Neuchâtel; University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; University of Bern; University of Lausanne Hospitals
• Treatments: Efavirenz; Etravirine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients > 18 years

• Signing the study consent form and agree to change ART regimen

• Stable HAART including EFV since at least 3 months

• HIV-RNA below 50 copies for at least 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• No major psychiatric disease (psychosis, severe depression) diagnosed before the initiation of EFV

• Mentally incompetent patients

• Pregnancy or lactation Women of childbearing potential must use one or two reliable contraceptive methods during the trial, from day 1 to the end of week 12. Acceptable methods include the birth control pill, IUD, condoms with spermicides. Non-acceptable methods include (non-exhaustive list): Withdrawal, calendar (Onigo method), or spermicides alone.

• Concomitant renal or hepatic disease:

• Creatinine above 150 micromol/L

• Transaminases above 5 times upper normal limit

• Prothrombin (Quick) value below 50%