Adverse events of psychotropic medications in preschoolers: Highest for fluoxetine

There has been a sharp increase in prescribing of psychotropic medications for very young children, but research looking at adverse events (AEs) lags behind, leaving clinicians and parents no choice but to rely on anecdotal evidence or research on older children in their decision‐making. So researchers, using the Pediatric Adverse Events Rating Scale (PAERS), assessed AEs in a very young clinical sample. For the study, researchers wanted to describe the frequency and types of medication related to AEs in the children, and to identify the medications associated with the highest frequency of AEs.