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DOES AGE PREDICT THE LONG‐TERM OUTCOME OF DEPRESSION TREATED WITH ECT? (A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE LONG‐TERM OUTCOME OF ECT‐TREATED DEPRESSION WITH RESPECT TO AGE)
Author(s) -
WESSON MICHAEL L.,
WILKINSON ANDREW M.,
ANDERSON DAVID N.,
McCRACKEN CHERIE
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199701)12:1<45::aid-gps458>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , melancholia , depression (economics) , psychosis , psychotic depression , outcome (game theory) , psychology , psychiatry , prospective cohort study , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , cognition , mathematics , mathematical economics , economics , macroeconomics
Sixty‐three subjects with DSM‐III‐R major depression with melancholia or psychosis were followed up 2–4 years after index treatment with electroconvulsive therapy. There was a twofold increase in likelihood of improved outcome with an additional 20 years of age. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.