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Acute Cough Study In Children

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Status and phase

Terminated
Phase 4

Conditions

Infections, Upper Respiratory Tract
Common Cold

Treatments

Drug: Placebo
Drug: Dextromethorphan

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
Industry

Identifiers

NCT01257542
RB-10-12
A6531001

Details and patient eligibility

About

15 mg dextromethorphan hydrobromide will be better than placebo with respect to reducing the number of coughs over 6 hours and reducing the subjective severity of cough over 6 hours.

Full description

In light of protocol changes required due to methodological and operational issues, including background noise in cough recordings which could impact data interpretation, the study has been terminated.

Enrollment

140 patients

Sex

All

Ages

6 to 11 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Male or female healthy children ages 6 to under 12 years who are symptomatic with a cough due to a cold or acute URTI characterized by:

  • Onset of cold/URTI symptoms occurring no more than 10 days prior to Visit 1;
  • At least 5 coughs during the second 30-minute period of the 60-minute baseline period.

General good health, aside from a common cold, and has no contraindications to the study or rescue medication

Exclusion criteria

  • Acute, subchronic, or chronic cough due to any other condition other than a common cold

History of clinically significant cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, neurological, hematological, autoimmune, psychiatric, metabolic, gastro-intestinal or endocrine disease

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

140 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Active
Experimental group
Treatment:
Drug: Dextromethorphan
Placebo
Placebo Comparator group
Treatment:
Drug: Placebo

Trial contacts and locations

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