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. 2019 Nov 26;2019(11):CD009286. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009286.pub3

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Methods Parallel design. 3 groups: paroxetine, paroxetine plus psychotherapy, control. We are using paroxetine and control data in this review
Analysis: according to treatment group
Participants Location: China
Setting: inpatient
Stroke criteria: first ever stroke; ischaemic and haemorrhagic, timing: "acute", clinical diagnosis plus confirmation by imaging (though not clear whether a stroke lesion had to be present or not)
Mood criteria: meets ICD‐10 organic depression and organic anxiety diagnostic criteria on psychiatric interview, HAMD score ≥ 17 and HAMA score ≥ 14
Treatment: 27 people, mean age 62.4 ± 6.1 years, 14 men
Control: 27 people, mean age 63.2 ± 5.7 years, 16 men
Exclusion: previous psychiatric disorder, antidepressants and "nerve block agents" in recent 3 months, severe cognitive impairment, aphasia, severe cardiac, hepatic and renal function impairment, allergy to paroxetine, severe suicidal behaviour
Interventions Treatment: paroxetine 20 mg plus routine stroke treatment
Control: routine stroke treatment
Duration of treatment: 6 weeks
Duration of follow‐up: end of treatment to study end: 0
Outcomes SSS
BI
HAMD
HAMA
TESS
Also reported GI upset and dizziness. They did not list any seizures in the list of AEs, so we are assuming no seizures in either groups
Unclear how side effects were collected
Funding source Funded by a local scientific academic fund
Notes The authors mentioned using the SDS and the SAS for evaluation, but they did not report the results of SDS and SAS
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Method not described
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not described
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk No placebo
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Not described
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk No dropouts, analysed according to treatment group
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk No protocol, the authors mentioned using the SDS and the SAS for evaluation but they did not report the results
Other bias Low risk Balanced baseline