Taner 2006.
Methods | Eight‐week single‐blind randomised study | |
Participants | Outpatients fulfilling DSM‐IV criteria for major depressive disorder lasting at least 1 month and for atypical depression. Exclusion criteria: significant suicide risk, pregnancy, lactation or unwillingness to use effective birth control in women, unstable and serious physical illness, a history of seizures, psychosis or organic mental syndrome, substance abuse disorders within the past 6 months, except for nicotine dependence, history of mania, antisocial personality disorder and use of an antidepressant over the previous month. |
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Interventions | Fluoxetine: 21 participants
Reboxetine: 22 participants
Fluoxetine dose range: 40‐80 mg/day Reboxetine dose range: 4‐10 mg/day |
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Outcomes | Change in the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression‐17 item (HDRS‐17) score and in Clinical Global Impression (CGI) score | |
Notes | Funding: unclear | |
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Randomised, no further information |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | No information provided |
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) All outcomes | High risk | Single blind, no further information |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | High risk | Quote: "both psychiatrists, one rated the tests and the other who performed the drug follow‐up, were blinded to each other until the end of the study", no further information |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | High risk | Single blind, no further information |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | High risk | Number and reasons for dropout reported, mean endpoint scores (HDRS‐17, CGI, Global Assessment of Functioning [GAF]) reported, but data in the text was different from tables |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | High risk | Side effects were described, but the whole number of patients reporting side effects was unclear |
Other bias | Unclear risk | Funding: unclear |