Wang 2008.
Methods | Allocation: randomised. Blindness: not stated. Duration: 6 weeks. |
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Participants | Diagnosis: schizophrenia (CCMD‐3). N = 60. Age: average ˜ 28 years (SD ˜ 9). Sex: 29 men 31 women. History: average duration ill ˜ 7 years (SD ˜ 5). Inclusion criteria: With permission from patients and their families. Exclusion criteria: Serious physical diseases; brain organic mental disorders; drug abuse; pregnancy and women who were lactating; drug allergy. |
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Interventions | 1. WDD (please see details in Table 5) + clozapine: dose clozapine, 100 mg/d to 200 mg/d. N = 31. 2. Clozapine: dose clozapine, 250 mg/d to 550 mg/d. N = 29. | |
Outcomes | Global state: cure (binary PANSS scores ‐ reduced >75%, 50% to 74%, 25% to 49%, no effect ‐ <24%). Mental state: PANSS total.* Adverse events: EPS, salivation, constipation, drop in blood pressure, headache and dizziness, weakness, exciting, indigestion, insomnia (TESS). |
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Notes | *: PANSS at 2 and 4 weeks after treatment not used in this review (short‐term data used 6‐week outcomes). | |
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Quote: "randomly divided in to intervention group and control …" |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Not stated. |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | High risk | Not stated. |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Not stated. |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | No missing outcome data. |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | We were unable to locate original study protocol, however, all outcomes listed in the 'methods' section of the paper appear to have been measured and reported. |
Other bias | Low risk | No obvious other bias. |