Comparative efficacy, acceptability, and safety of medicinal, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and placebo treatments for acute major depressive disorder in children and adolescents: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis.

The article presents a report titled " Comparative efficacy, acceptability, and safety of medicinal, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and placebo treatments for acute major depressive disorder in children and adolescents: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis." Topics discussed include characteristics of trials studying major depressive disorder treatment, efficacy and safety of treatment using venlafaxine, sertraline, and mirtazapine, and efficacy of treatment with combined fluoxetine.