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Trial abstract · §2

RECONNECT-302 — design and population

Design, allocation, arms and the population enrolled.

Document identifier
CEI-TR-0134/2
Series
Trial abstract
Version
2.4
Published
05 Jan 2023
Last reviewed
05 Oct 2023
Next review
05 Oct 2025
Identifier
10.71829/cei.trial.134
Certainty
Moderate
Cycle
2023 Q1
Phase
Phase 3
Status
Reported

§2Design and population

§2.1Design and allocation

Design class
Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group
Masking
Double-blind (participant, investigator and sponsor)
Arms
2
Allocation
Randomised between the intervention and its comparator
Endpoint adjudication
Not applicable to the primary endpoint of this design
Data monitoring
As specified in the protocol

§2.2Arms

Table 2. Randomised arms. Illustrative: arm-level allocations are reconstructed by the Institute from the design class and the randomised total where the published report does not state them.

ArmAllocatedShareDescription
PT-141 (bremelanotide)32151.0 %Intervention at the dose reached after titration
Placebo30949.0 %Matched placebo, administered on the same schedule
Randomised total 630 as published. Arm-level splits are reconstructed and are not published figures.

§2.3Population

Indication. Hypoactive sexual desire and erectile dysfunction

Persistently reduced sexual desire or impaired erectile function causing distress, assessed by validated instruments.

Geographic footprint. Sweden · Spain · Italy · Poland · Israel · Australia · Mexico.

§2.4Eligibility as the Institute reads it

  • Included. Persistently reduced sexual desire or impaired erectile function causing distress, assessed by validated instruments.
  • Excluded. Participants for whom the intervention is contraindicated, including uncontrolled hypertension. Exclusion criteria narrow the population to which the estimate applies and are the principal source of indirectness where a trial estimate is applied to ordinary practice.
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