Table 1.
Antidepressant prescriptions and indications in a specialist child and adolescent eating disorders program.
| |
Number of prescriptions |
Indications |
||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dosage/day (M , range) | Pre-referral | During EDP | Depression mood | Depression & anxiety | Depression & OCD anxiety | OCD | Anxiety | Depression & OCD | OCD & anxiety | Depression & PTSD | Depression & insomnia | Anxiety & bulimic symptoms | Depression & bulimic symptoms | Unclear |
| Amitriptyline (25 mg, NA) |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
| Citalopram (32 mg, 20-60 mg) |
- |
6 |
3 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Desvenlafaxine (83 mg, 50-100 mg) |
- |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Escitalopram (15 mg, 10-20 mg) |
1 |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Fluoxetine (32 mg, 10-60 mg) |
4 |
35 |
21 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
- |
1 |
1 |
- |
| Fluvoxamine (150 mg, NA) |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Mirtazapine (22 mg, 15-30 mg) |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
1 |
| Moclobemide (150 mg, NA) |
- |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Sertraline (100 mg, NA) |
1 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Venlafaxine (168 mg, 150-225 mg) |
- |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Total | 60 | 31 (52%) | 8 (13%) | 5 (8%) | 3 (5%) | 2 (3%) | 2 (3%) | 2 (3%) | 2 (3%) | 2 (3%) | 1 (2%) | 1 (2%) | 1 (2%) | |