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Are Patients Shocked by ECT?

Author(s) -

Jennifer Hughes,

B. M. Barraclough,

William Reeve

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688107400409

Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , distressing , newspaper , psychiatry , medicine , mental illness , psychology , psychotherapist , mental health , advertising , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , chemistry , business

Seventy-two consecutive patients treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for severe mental illness were asked their opinions about ECT: 83% considered they had improved as a result of the treatment and 81% would have it again. Most found the experience neutral or pleasant and 54% thought the dentist more distressing. Claims in newspapers, magazines, television and elsewhere that ECT is cruel and frightening receive little support from the results of this study.

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