Psychiatry · page 3

In paediatric anxiety, fluoxetine, CBT, their combination and every sequencing of them worked equally well

A pragmatic SMART trial randomised 316 severely anxious young people with high sociodemographic disadvantage. Symptoms fell 31.7% overall, and no initial treatment, and no sequence after week 12, outperformed another — which makes patient and family preference the legitimate basis for choosing.