Study characteristics |
Methods |
Trial design: double‐blind RCT with 2 parallel arms
Type of publication: journal publication
Setting: outpatient (< 1% inpatients at baseline)
Recruitment dates: July to December 2020
Country: Columbia
Language: English
Number of centres: 1
Study purpose (treatment, prevention): treatment
Trial registration number: NCT04405843
Date of registration: 28 May 2020
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Participants |
Number of participants (randomized/analysed): 476/398
Age (median): overall 37 years
Males, n: overall 167 (42%)
Severity of condition according to study definition: mild disease, defined as being at home or hospitalized but not receiving high‐flow nasal oxygen or mechanical ventilation
Severity of condition according to WHO scale: 2 to 3 (< 1% of included patients 4 to 5)
Time from symptom onset to enrolment (median): overall 5 (IQR 4 to 6) days
Comorbidities: any pre‐existing condition, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, respiratory disease
Virus detection performed at baseline (test‐positive at baseline): RT‐PCR or RAT (100%)
Vaccination status: NR, study period before vaccination was available
Inclusion criteria: aged ≥ 18 years; confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 by RT‐PCR or antigen detection in a Colombian National Institute of Health‐approved laboratory; beginning of symptoms in the past 7 days; mild disease; informed consent
Exclusion criteria: pre‐existing liver disease; hypersensitivity to ivermectin; participants in other clinical trials for therapies against COVID‐19; severe pneumonia; pregnant or breastfeeding women; concomitant use of warfarin, erdafitinib, or quinidine; use of ivermectin in the 5 days prior to randomization; inability to obtain a blood sample needed to assess liver transaminases; elevation of transaminases > 1.5 times the normal level; participant whose first contact with the study personnel occurs between days 5 and 7 and at that time manifests significant and progressive resolution of COVID‐19 related signs and symptoms
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Interventions |
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Details of intervention
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Treatment details of control group
Concomitant therapy: standard of care including NSAIDs, antipyretic drugs, antibiotics, steroids, anticoagulants administered in both study arms
Duration of follow‐up: 21 days
Treatment cross‐overs: none
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Outcomes |
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Notes |
Date of publication: 4 March 2021
Sponsor/funding: Centro de Estudios en Infectología Pediátrica
Correspondence with the author team: author request sent (review relevant outcome data); no response received from author
Information on ethics votum: ethics committee approval number reported by a nationally‐recognized ethics committee, as defined in the country's clinical trial regulations
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