Patient attitudes to electroconvulsive therapy
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Patient attitudes to electroconvulsive therapy
AIMS AND METHODS To investigate patients’ subjective attitudes to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) a questionnaire was posted to 89 consecutive patients who had received treatment in an ECT department. RESULTS Fifty-one responses were obtained (57%). Results indicated a high satisfaction with the department and the treatment itself; 44 respondents would or might have ECTagain and 35 reported at ...
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AIMS AND METHODS To investigate patients’ subjective attitudes to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) a questionnaire was posted to 89 consecutive patients who had received treatment in an ECT department. RESULTS Fifty-one responses were obtained (57%). Results indicated a high satisfaction with the department and the treatment itself; 44 respondents would or might have ECTagain and 35 reported at ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.106.011486