From: Canadian practice guidelines for the treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders
Certainty assessment | Impact | Certainty | Importance | ||||||
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№ of studies | Study design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | |||
Anxiety (assessed with: clinical impression) | |||||||||
5 | Case Reports | very serious a | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | 13 patients (3 male, 10 female) treated with various SSRIs including fluoxetine (8), paroxetine (2), fluvoxamine (1), sertraline (1), escitalopram (1). All cases experienced an improvement in anxiety and improved eating. | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | CRITICAL |