Maintenance Study for Adolescent Depression

Summary

This study examined the benefit of continued treatment with an antidepressant medication, sertraline, in adolescents with depression who improved on sertraline acutely. We hypothesize that adolescents who remained on sertraline long term were less likely to have a recurrence of depression compared to those on placebo.

Timeline

Start

1997-07

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Completion

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Publications

• Cheung A, Kusumakar V, Kutcher S, Dubo E, Garland J, Weiss M, Kiss A, Levitt A. Maintenance study for adolescent depression. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2008 Aug;18(4):389-94. doi: 10.1089/cap.2008.0001.

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