ArticleBMC psychiatry2021
Long-term effect of aripiprazole lauroxil on health-related quality of life in patients with schizophrenia.
Article in BMC psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
A Phase 3, Multicenter, Extension of Study ALK9072-003 to Assess the Long-term Safety and Durability of Effect of ALKS 9072 in Subjects With Stable Schizophrenia
A Phase 3, Multicenter Extension of Study ALK9072-003EXT to Assess the Long-term Safety and Durability of Effect of ALKS 9072 in Subjects With Stable Schizophrenia
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- New Antipsychotic Medications in the Last Decade.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Pooled it
- Semaglutide Treatment of Antipsychotic-Treated Patients With Schizophrenia, Prediabetes, and Obesity: The HISTORI Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Aripiprazole Lauroxil: Development and Evidence-Based Review of a Long-Acting Injectable Atypical Antipsychotic for the Treatment of Schizophrenia.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Review
- A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness of Antipsychotic Drugs on the Quality of Life of Patients with Schizophrenia.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Second Generation Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia: The Patient's Subjective Quality of Life, Well-Being, and Satisfaction.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundThis post hoc analysis of clinical trial data evaluated long-term, self-reported mental and physical health-related quality of life (HRQoL) scores in schizophrenia patients receiving aripiprazole lauroxil (AL), an atypical long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotic approved for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults.
methodsThe study population included 291 stable schizophrenia outpatients enrolled in 2 consecutive long-term safety studies of AL given every 4 weeks for up to 124 weeks. HRQoL was measured using the SF-36v2® Health Survey (SF-36v2) over the course of the follow-up. The primary outcome was change in SF-36v2 mental component summary (MCS) and physical component summary (PCS) scores from baseline to 124 weeks. To contextualize these scores, descriptive analyses were conducted to compare the scores with available scores for the general population as well as for other populations with chronic medical (ie, hypertension and type 2 diabetes) or psychiatric (ie, depression) conditions.
resultsResults from this post hoc analysis indicated that the mean MCS score for patients continuing AL improved significantly from baseline over 124 weeks (P < .05, all timepoints), while mean PCS score showed little change over 124 weeks. At baseline, patients had lower (worse) MCS scores than the normed general population, but by week 124, patients had MCS scores comparable to those in the general population. This pattern of change was not observed with PCS scores. Comparison of study MCS scores with those associated with other diseases showed that this schizophrenia cohort had lower scores than those with chronic medical conditions but higher scores than those with depression. PCS scores were higher in the study population than published scores for all reference populations at baseline and week 124.
conclusionsIn this post hoc analysis, outpatients with schizophrenia who continued the LAI antipsychotic AL showed gradual and sustained improvement in self-reported mental HRQoL over several years of follow-up, whereas self-reported physical HRQoL did not change. By the end of follow-up, mental health scores of study patients with schizophrenia were comparable to those of the general population and better than those of patients with depression.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01626456 [trial registration date: June 15, 2012] and NCT01895452 [trial registration date: July 5, 2013]).
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