| Protocol ID | NCT04950608 |
| Registration Date | 2021-07-06 |
| Status | completed |
| Sponsor | Yvan Beaussant, MD, MSci |
| Country | United States |
| Industry | not industry |
| Blinding | unblinded |
| Center Type | singel-center RCT |
| Scope | national RCT |
| First Patient In | 2022-03-09 |
| Last Patient Out | 2025-12-31 |
| Publication | y |
| Gender % | ALL |
| Mean Age | 21 Years - |
NCT04950608
Pilot Study of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy for Demoralization in Patients Receiving Hospice Care - PATH Study
| Field |
GLM
glm-5.1 8400ms / 11458 tok |
CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514 Thinking: claude-opus-4-20250514 7129ms / 13074 tok |
OPENAI
gpt-4o Thinking: o3 6261ms / 11280 tok |
Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rct_type | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |
| cancer_status | Cancer | Cancer | Cancer | OK |
| non_cancer_spec | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |
| setting_patient |
outpatient
outpatient
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: outpatient
|
outpatient
outpatient → outpatient → outpatient
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: outpatient
Requery: outpatient — Participants are hospice patients receiving care at home, which is an outpatient setting, and the exclusion criteria specifically excludes patients with 'Current General Inpatient (GIP) hospice status.'
Thinking: outpatient — Patients must be enrolled in hospice care at home, with inpatient hospice status explicitly excluded as a criterion.
|
outpatient
inpatient → inpatient → outpatient
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: inpatient
Requery: inpatient — The intervention is delivered to patients receiving hospice care, which involves an inpatient setting as these patients are typically admitted to a hospice unit for end-of-life care.
Thinking: outpatient — Participants are home hospice patients (inclusion requires hospice care at home and excludes inpatient hospice), so the intervention is delivered in an outpatient/home setting.
|
OK |
| setting_place |
hospice
home care
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: home care
|
hospice
home care → hospice
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: home care
Requery: hospice — The study specifically targets patients enrolled in hospice care and delivers the psilocybin-assisted therapy intervention in the hospice care setting.
|
hospice
hospice → hospice
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: hospice
Requery: hospice — The intervention is specifically designed for and delivered to patients enrolled in hospice care at home, focusing on terminally ill patients receiving hospice services.
|
OK |
| feasibility | feasibility RCT | feasibility RCT | feasibility RCT | OK |
| intervention_pharmacologic | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| intervention_chemo_immuno_radio | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_complementary | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_device | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_psychological | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| intervention_complex | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| intervention_acp | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_music | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_screening | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_palliative |
no
no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: no — The study tests psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as the intervention in hospice patients, making palliative care the setting rather than the intervention itself.
|
no
yes → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: no — This study tests psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as the intervention in hospice patients, where hospice care is the setting but not the experimental intervention being evaluated.
|
no
no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: no — The trial focuses on psilocybin-assisted therapy, not palliative care as an intervention.
|
OK |
| intervention_education | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_digital | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_other | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_symptom | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| outcome_qol | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| outcome_dignity | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| outcome_cost | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_other | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| pharmacologic_sub |
not yet FDA/EMA approved
not yet FDA/EMA approved → not yet FDA/EMA approved
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: not yet FDA/EMA approved
Requery: not yet FDA/EMA approved — The detailed description explicitly states that psilocybin is an investigational drug that has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment for any disease.
|
not yet FDA/EMA approved
controlled substances → controlled substances → not yet FDA/EMA approved
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: controlled substances
Requery: controlled substances — Psilocybin is a controlled substance classified as a Schedule I drug by the DEA, and this study involves its administration in a clinical trial setting.
Thinking: not yet FDA/EMA approved — The study explicitly states psilocybin is an 'Investigational' drug that has not been approved by the FDA as a treatment for any disease.
|
not yet FDA/EMA approved
controlled substances → not yet FDA/EMA approved → not yet FDA/EMA approved
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: controlled substances
Requery: not yet FDA/EMA approved — Psilocybin is classified as an investigational drug, not yet approved by the FDA for the intended use in this study.
Thinking: not yet FDA/EMA approved — Psilocybin is an investigational psychedelic drug that has not received FDA or EMA marketing approval for any indication.
|
OK |