CAMG334A3301 BECOME - Migraine Impact data collection study

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    The Burden of migraine in specialist headache centres treating patients with prophylactic treatment failure.

  • IRAS ID

    233968

  • Contact name

    Fayyaz Ahmed

  • Contact email

    Fayyaz.Ahmed@hey.nhs.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    Novartis Pharma AG

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    0 years, 3 months, days

  • Research summary

    Novartis is conducting this non-interventional study called BECOME to assess the proportion of episodic and chronic migraine patients who have failed at least one standard of care prophylactic migraine treatment. The aim of this study is to assess the burden of migraine on people’s quality of life and the impact of migraine on healthcare resources. The study is designed to measure the number of headache patients across headache specialist care centers who have failed at least one prophylactic migraine treatment and to describe the impact of migraine on this population. The information collected will be used to support the dossier submission of Novartis drug Erenumab® (AMG334) to become licensed as a second line migraine treatment for patients who have failed 1 or more standard migraine drug. As this is a non-interventional study, patients will be identified during routine clinical practice and asked attend a single visit to complete a patient interview and set of questionnaires.

    Approximately 2462 patients across Europe will participate in the study. Approximately 140 of these patients will be recruited from sites in the UK and 54 from sites in Ireland. Data collection is expected to begin on 15th December 2017 and end on 15th March 2018.

  • REC name

    North East - York Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    17/NE/0370

  • Date of REC Opinion

    21 Nov 2017

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion