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CTRI Number  CTRI/2024/06/069550 [Registered on: 26/06/2024] Trial Registered Prospectively
Last Modified On: 31/12/2025
Post Graduate Thesis  No 
Type of Trial  Observational 
Type of Study   Cross Sectional Study 
Study Design  Other 
Public Title of Study   Serum level of Interleukin 4, Interleukin 6 in patients with major depressive disorder considering history of suicide attempts  
Scientific Title of Study   Evaluation of serum level of Interleukin 4, Interleukin 6 in patients with major depressive disorder considering history of suicide attempts in a tertiary care hospital of Eastern India – A cross sectional study 
Trial Acronym  NIL 
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  Gunjan Gayen 
Designation  Post Graduate Trainee 
Affiliation  R G Kar Medical College and Hospital 
Address  Department of Pharmacology 2nd Floor Academic Building R G kar Medical College and Hospital 1 Khudiram Bose Sarani Kolkata West Bengal

Kolkata
WEST BENGAL
700004
India 
Phone  6290918629  
Fax    
Email  gunjangayen75@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
Name  Dr Payel Talukdar 
Designation  Associate Professor and Head Department of Psychiatry 
Affiliation  R G Kar Medical College and Hospital 
Address  Department of Psychiatry 4th Floor Academic Building R G kar Medical College and Hospital 1 Khudiram Bose Sarani Kolkata West Bengal

Kolkata
WEST BENGAL
700004
India 
Phone  9433272944  
Fax    
Email  drpayeltalukdar@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
Name  Dr Payel Talukdar 
Designation  Associate Professor and Head Department of Psychiatry 
Affiliation  R G Kar Medical College and Hospital 
Address  Department of Psychiatry 4th Floor Academic Building R G kar Medical College and Hospital 1 Khudiram Bose Sarani Kolkata West Bengal


WEST BENGAL
700004
India 
Phone  9433272944  
Fax    
Email  drpayeltalukdar@gmail.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
R G Kar Medical College and Hospital 1 Khudiram Bose Sarani Kolkata - 700004 West Bengal India  
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  R G Kar Medical College and Hospital 
Address  1 Khudiram Bose Sarani Kolkata 700004 West Bengal 
Type of Sponsor  Government medical college 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL  NIL 
 
Countries of Recruitment     India  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 1  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
Dr Gunjan Gayen  R G Kar Medical College and Hospital  Out Patient Department Room No 404 Department of Psychiatry 3rd Floor OPD Building R G Kar Medical College and Hospital 1 khudiram Bose Sarani Kolkata 700004 West Bengal
Kolkata
WEST BENGAL 
6290918629

gunjangayen75@gmail.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
Institution Ethics Committee R G Kar Medical College  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Patients  (1) ICD-10 Condition: F329||Major depressive disorder, singleepisode, unspecified,  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Intervention  NIL  NIL 
Comparator Agent  NIL  NIL 
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  18.00 Year(s)
Age To  60.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  1. Patient of age above 18 years suffering from major depressive disorder with a history of
suicide attempts.
2. Patients who will give informed consent for the study. 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  1. Patients who disagree to give consent.
2. Patients with a history of substance abuse except tobacco and alcohol.
3. Any chronic condition with cognitive dysfunction.
4. Clinical history of systemic autoimmune disease.
5. Patients receiving recent (last week) anti-inflammatory medication.
6. Patients with severe injuries will not be recruited in the first month following suicide attempts
(They will not be considered as a recent suicide attempt group). 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Not Applicable 
Method of Concealment   Not Applicable 
Blinding/Masking   Not Applicable 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
To find out the link between serum IL 6, IL 4 and psychosocial variables in suicide attempts  Baseline 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
1. To enquire for the correlation between serum IL 6, IL 4 and major depressive disorder (MDD)

2. To assess the relationship between inflammatory markers (IL 6 and IL 4) and MDD considering
socio demographic factors of the patients 
Baseline 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="41"
Sample Size from India="41" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "41"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="41" 
Phase of Trial   N/A 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   05/07/2024 
Date of Study Completion (India) 10/04/2025 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  Date Missing 
Date of Study Completion (Global) Date Missing 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="1"
Months="0"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)
Modification(s)  
Not Applicable 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Completed 
Publication Details   N/A 
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Response - NO
Brief Summary  
Patient suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) with a history of suicide attempts attending the in and outpatient department   
of Psychiatry of R G kar Medical College & Hospital, having given proper consent and fulfilling 
inclusion and exclusion criteria are taken into the study. Patients will be assessed using Mini International 
Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I). Depressive symptoms will be evaluated using the Public Health 
Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS). Suicide attempts will be 
assessed by the Pierce Suicide Intent Scale. Serum IL 4 and IL 6 will be measured by ELISA technique. 
Descriptive statistics will be utilized for the expression of data. The P value of< 0.05 will be considered 
statistically significant at a 95 confidence interval. All the analysis will be done by using the SPSS version 
27, Graphpad prism etc
 
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