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Table 35.

SSRIs for children and adolescents with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder

Certainty assessment	Impact	Certainty	Importance
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

Certainty assessment

Impact

Certainty

Importance

№ of studies

Study design

Risk of bias

Inconsistency

Indirectness

Imprecision

Other considerations

Anxiety (assessed with: clinical impression)

Case Reports

very serious ^a

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

Explanations

^ano control group

Bibliography:

Case Reports - Banerjee 2005 [176], Hosoglu 2018 [177], Spettigue 2018 [53], Celik 2007 [178], Bailly 2003 [120]