A Study to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of KarXT + KarX-EC as a Treatment for Psychosis Associated With Alzheimer's Disease (ADEPT-5)

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 3
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age55-90
SponsorBristol-Myers Squibb

About this trial

The purpose of this study is to evaluate KarXT + KarX-EC as a treatment for psychosis associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Participants must be 55 to 90 years of age, inclusive, at the time of Screening (Visit 1).

Participants must be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in accordance with the 2024 revised criteria for diagnosis and staging of Alzheimer's Disease: Alzheimer's Association Workgroup.

Participants must have a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain (completed within the past 5 years) taken during or subsequent to the onset of dementia to rule out other central nervous system (CNS) disease that could account for the dementia syndrome, eg, major stroke, neoplasm, subdural hematoma.

Participants must have a history of psychotic symptoms (meeting International Psychogeriatric Association criteria) for at least 2 months prior to Screening (Visit 1) (participants may or may not have symptoms of agitation).

Disqualifiers

Participants must not have psychotic symptoms that are primarily attributable to a condition other than the AD causing the dementia, eg, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, or mood disorder with psychotic features.

Participants must not have history of major depressive episode with psychotic features during the 12 months prior to Screening, or history of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder.

Participants must not have certain safety concerns, including certain laboratory test irregularities.

Other protocol-defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria apply.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • KarXT

    Drug

    Specified dose on specified days

  • KarX-EC

    Drug

    Specified dose on specified days

  • KarXT + KarX-EC Arm Matching Placebo

    Drug

    Specified dose on specified days

Treatment groups

325 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: PlaceboPlacebo comparator 1 intervention
Group B: KarXT + KarX-EC ArmExperimental treatment 2 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Change From Baseline in Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Clinician: Hallucinations and Delusions (NPI-C: H+D) Score

Time frame
Up to approximately Week 14

Secondary outcomes

1

Change From Baseline in Clinical Global Impressions-Severity (CGI-S) Score

Time frame
Up to approximately Week 14
2

Change From Baseline in Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Clinician Rating Scale (NPI-C) Core Score

NPI-C Core Score includes assessment for hallucinations, delusions, agitation, and aggression domains

Time frame
Up to approximately Week 14
3

Change From Baseline in NPI-C: Agitation Score

Time frame
Up to approximately Week 14
4

Change From Baseline in NPI-C Core Score: Caregiver Distress Scale

NPI-C Core Score: Caregiver Distress Scale includes assessment for hallucinations, delusions, agitation, and aggression domains

Time frame
Up to approximately Week 14

Other outcomes

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