Table 35 SSRIs for children and adolescents with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
From: Canadian practice guidelines for the treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders
| Certainty assessment | Impact | Certainty | Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| № 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 |