Reuters
Dr. Daniel A. Geller, of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and colleagues examined the safety and efficacy of Paxil for the treatment of children and teens with OCD.
One hundred subjects were randomly assigned to receive Paxil and 107 were randomly assigned to receive placebo, a "sugar pill," for 10 weeks. The main measure of the drug's effectiveness was the change from the start of the study in scores on the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS). The average CY-BOCS total score at the start of the study was 24.8, indicating moderate-to-severe OCD.
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