Multiple secondary data analyses of TORDIA have identified important predictors of treatment response and relapse .
To up date a comparative effectiveness review ( 1980–2011 ) of treatments for adolescents whose depressive episode or disorder ( MDE/MDD ) did not respond to one or more trials of SSRI antidepressants .
Adjunctive sleep medications and depression outcome in the treatment of serotonin-selective reuptake inhibitor resistant depression in adolescents study.
OBJECTIVE In the Treatment of Resistant Depression in Adolescents , study participants who received medication for sleep  had a lower response rate . This report sought to clarify this finding . METHOD Depressed adolescents who had not responded to a previous adequate serotonin-selective reuptake inhibitor ( SSRI ) trial were r and omly assigned to another SSRI , venlafaxine , another SSRI+cognitive behavior therapy ( CBT ) , or venlafaxine+CBT . Augmentation with sleep medication was permitted as clinical ly indicated . RESULTS Youth who received trazodone  were six times less likely to respond than those with no sleep medication ( adjusted odds ratio [OR]=0.16 , 95 % confidence interval [ CI ] : 0.05 - 0.50 , p=0.001 ) and were three times more likely to experience self-harm ( OR=3.0 , 95 % CI : 1.1 - 7.9 , p=0.03 ) , even after adjusting for baseline differences associated with trazodone use . None ( 0/13 ) of those cotreated with trazodone and either paroxetine or fluoxetine responded . In contrast , those treated with other sleep medications had similar rates of response ( 60.0 % vs. 50.4 % , χ(2)=0.85 , p=0.36 ) and of self-harm events ( OR=0.5 , 95 % CI : 0.1 - 2.6 , p=0.53 ) as those who received no sleep medication . CONCLUSIONS These findings should be interpreted cautiously because these sleep agents were not assigned r and omly , but at clinician discretion . Nevertheless , they suggest that the use of trazodone for the management of sleep difficulties in adolescent depression should be re-evaluated and that future research on the management of sleep disturbance in adolescent depression is needed . The very low response rate of participants cotreated with trazodone and either fluoxetine or paroxetine could be due to inhibition of CYP 2D6 by these antidepressants
Multiple secondary data analyses of TORDIA have identified important predictors of treatment response and relapse .
To up date a comparative effectiveness review ( 1980–2011 ) of treatments for adolescents whose depressive episode or disorder ( MDE/MDD ) did not respond to one or more trials of SSRI antidepressants .