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CompletedNCT04184115Updated Dec 3, 2019

Nasal Gel for the Prevention and Treatment of Nausea Associated With Motion Sickness

A Phase 3 interventional study of DPI-386 Nasal Gel and Placebos in Motion Sickness, sponsored by Repurposed Therapeutics, Inc.. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 59 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-12-03.

Sponsored by Repurposed Therapeutics, Inc. · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Jun 2019, 7 years 5 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
102
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 59 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Phase 3 clinical trial is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to identify the safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of a repeated-dose regimen of DPI 386 nasal gel (intranasal scopolamine gel) for the prevention and treatment of nausea associated with motion sickness.

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This Phase 3 clinical trial is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to identify the safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of a repeated-dose regimen of DPI 386 nasal gel (intranasal scopolamine gel) for the prevention and treatment of nausea associated with motion sickness. The study will have three arms: DPI-386 nasal gel, placebo nasal gel, and TDS patch (1.5 mg/72 hours), the current standard of care for the treatment of motion sickness. The study will include 34 subjects per arm, for a total of 102 subjects (n=102). A double dummy design will be used to mask the treatment assignment. All subjects will receive both a patch and nasal gel randomized to one of the following three arms: DPI-386 Nasal Gel + placebo patch, placebo nasal gel + placebo patch, or placebo nasal gel + TDS patch.

Treatment Day 1 will be conducted aboard an ocean-going vessel to obtain data in an operationally relevant real world environment immediately followed by Treatment Days 2 and 3 at a clinical site or one of its two satellite locations.

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Conditions studied

  • Motion Sickness

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In context

Motion Sickness

50 studies on the registry are indexed under Motion Sickness; 9 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 102 is above the median of 59 across 44 interventional studies indexed under Motion Sickness.

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Lead sponsor

Repurposed Therapeutics, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 11 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

Of its 6 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 59 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Provision of a signed and dated Form (ICF).
  2. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study.
  3. Male or female, aged 18 to 59 (inclusive).
  4. At least two responses on the MSSQ must be "Sometimes" or "Frequently".
  5. In good general health as evidenced by medical history with no recent history or current diagnosis of uncontrolled clinical problems as assessed by the Principal Investigator (PI) or qualified designee.
  6. Ability to take intranasal medication and willingness to adhere to the study schedule and time constraints.
  7. For females of : willingness to provide a urine sample for the hCG pregnancy test. The test must be negative within seven days of the Treatment Day 1.
  8. Agreement to adhere to the following lifestyle compliance considerations:

    • Refrain from consumption of grapefruit and any substance containing grapefruit for seven days prior to, during, and for seven days after the three Treatment Days.
    • Abstain from alcohol for 24 hours prior to first dose of study medication and during the three Treatment Days.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Pregnancy, lactation, or positive urine pregnancy test within seven days of Treatment Day 1.
  2. Known allergic reactions to scopolamine or other anticholinergics.
  3. Currently prescribed any of the following medication types and used within the specified below:

    • any form of scopolamine (including Transderm Scop®) (washout 5 days)
    • belladonna alkaloids (washout 2 weeks),
    • antihistamines (including meclizine) (washout 2 weeks),
    • tricyclic antidepressants (washout 2 weeks),
    • muscle relaxants (washout 4 days) and
    • nasal decongestants (washout 4 days)
  4. Hospitalization or significant surgery requiring hospital admittance within the past six months.
  5. Treatment with another drug or other intervention within the past 30 days.
  6. Having donated blood or plasma or suffered significant blood loss within the past 30 days.
  7. Having any of the following medical conditions within the last two years or if any of the following medical conditions were experienced more than two years ago and are deemed by the PI or qualified designee:

    • Significant gastrointestinal disorder, asthma, or seizure disorders.
    • History of cardiovascular disease.
    • History of vestibular disorders.
    • History of narrow-angle glaucoma.
    • History of urinary retention problems.
    • History of alcohol or drug abuse.
    • Nasal, nasal sinus, or nasal mucosa surgery.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(5)

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Informed consent

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Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
102 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    DPI-386 Nasal Gel + placebo patch

    DPI-386 Nasal Gel: Each 0.12 gram of the gel contains 0.2 mg of scopolamine HBr

    Drug: DPI-386 Nasal Gel · Drug: Placebos

  • Placebo comparator
    Placebo nasal gel + Placebo patch

    Placebo

    Drug: Placebos

  • Active comparator
    placebo nasal gel + TDS patch

    Transderm Scop® is a commercial transdermal scopolamine (TDS) patch worn behind the ear containing a 1.5 mg reservoir of scopolamine to be delivered over a 72-hour period.

    Drug: DPI-386 Nasal Gel · Drug: Placebos

Interventions

  • 1.5 mg reservoir of scopolamine to be delivered over a 72-hour period

    Also known as: Transderm Scop®

  • DrugPlacebos

    Placebo Nasal Gel and placebo patch

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of subjects who developed motion sickness.

    Number of Subjects who developed motion sickness

    Time frame: 8 hours

  2. Adverse Event (AE) Reporting of DPI-386

    Number of subjects with indicated AEs receiving DPI-386

    Time frame: 7 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Severity of nausea as measured by the Visual Analog Scale (VAS)

    VAS - Respondents specify their degree of nausea by indicating a point along a continuous 100 mm line between two end-points; left one is for "No nausea" and the right one for "Very severe nausea". Scoring is based on the length from left point and a higher score means more severe degree of nausea (Spinks \& Wasiak, 2011).

    Time frame: During the 8 hour voyage on Treatment Day 1.

  2. Severity of motion sickness as measured by the Motion Sickness Assessment Questionnaire (MSAQ) over the treatment period.

    MSAQ - The MSAQ was designed to measure motion sickness as a multi-dimensional construct, with the understanding that when an individual states they are experiencing motion sickness, it is unlikely a single symptom, but rather a complex set of symptoms, with varying levels of severity. Sixteen symptoms are listed, with symptoms differentiated along four dimensions: gastrointestinal, central, peripheral, and sopite-related. Each symptom is scored from 1 to 9 in severity and scores then calculated. All 16 items were collected from the general public instead of experts, allowing for a more accurate wording of the symptomology experienced by persons outside of physiological sciences. The MSAQ has been repeatedly validated and is strongly correlated with both the Pensacola Diagnostic index (r = 0.81, p \< 0.001) and the Nausea Profile (r = 0.92, p \< 0.001).

    Time frame: During the 8 hour voyage on Treatment Day 1.

  3. 3. Cognition as measured by the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM).

    This battery consists of the ANAM CORE battery plus the Running Memory Continuous Performance Test (CPT).

    Time frame: During all three Treatment Days.

  4. Pharmacokinetic parameters of DPI-386 to be measured will include Maximum Observed Plasma Concentrations (Cmax)

    Pharmacokinetics will be assessed by the amount of total free scopolamine at each time point blood is collected and plasma samples will be assayed for scopolamine using a fully validated LC/MS method.

    Time frame: On Treatment Days 2 -3, PK draws will occur at the following time points: -60, 30, 60, 90, 120, 180, 330, 390, 450, 480 and 600 minutes.

  5. Pharmacokinetic parameters of DPI-386 to be measured will include Time to Reach Maximum Observed Plasma Concentration (tmax).

    Pharmacokinetics will be assessed by the amount of total free scopolamine at each time point blood is collected and plasma samples will be assayed for scopolamine using a fully validated LC/MS method.

    Time frame: On Treatment Days 2 -3, PK draws will occur at the following time points: -60, 30, 60, 90, 120, 180, 330, 390, 450, 480 and 600 minutes.

  6. Pharmacokinetic parameters of DPI-386 to be measured will include Area Under the Curve (AUC).

    Pharmacokinetics will be assessed by the amount of total free scopolamine at each time point blood is collected and plasma samples will be assayed for scopolamine using a fully validated LC/MS method.

    Time frame: On Treatment Days 2 -3, PK draws will occur at the following time points: -60, 30, 60, 90, 120, 180, 330, 390, 450, 480 and 600 minutes.

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Study locations

1 site
  • Collaborative Neuroscience Network, LLC
    Long Beach, California 90806, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — Publication

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Jun 2019 to primary completion in Jun 2019, 0 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jun 6, 2019
First posted
Dec 3, 2019
StartActual
Jun 9, 2019
Primary completionActual
Jun 11, 2019
CompletionActual
Jun 11, 2019
Last update
Dec 3, 2019
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 3, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04184115
Lead sponsor
Repurposed Therapeutics, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 3, 2019
Start date
Jun 9, 2019
Primary completion
Jun 11, 2019
Completion
Jun 11, 2019
Last update
Dec 3, 2019

Study contacts

David R Helton
study director · Repurposed Therapeutics, Inc.

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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