
Electroconvulsive Therapy in Depression
Author(s) -
Pelin Güney,
Carl Johan Ekman,
Åsa Hammar,
Emelie Heintz,
Mikael Landén,
J. Lundberg,
Pia Nordanskog,
Axel Nordenskjöld
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of ect/the journal of ect
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1533-4112
pISSN - 1095-0680
DOI - 10.1097/yct.0000000000000671
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , depression (economics) , visual analogue scale , eq 5d , physical therapy , population , analysis of variance , health related quality of life , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , disease , economics , macroeconomics , nursing , environmental health
It is uncertain if there are variations in the improvement of quality in life between sexes and age groups after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The aim of this study was to investigate how health-related quality of life changed after treatment and to examine differences in the results between sex and age groups.