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INDIAN PSYCHIATRISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY

A questionnaire on ECT, tapping attitudes, usage and experience, was mailed to all medical members of the Indian Psychiatric Society whose addresses were known; 263 (28.8%) of 913 psychiatrists responded. This paper describes Indian psychiatrists attitudes towards ECT. A global attitude favouring th...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, A.K., Andrade, Chittaranjan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584045
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description A questionnaire on ECT, tapping attitudes, usage and experience, was mailed to all medical members of the Indian Psychiatric Society whose addresses were known; 263 (28.8%) of 913 psychiatrists responded. This paper describes Indian psychiatrists attitudes towards ECT. A global attitude favouring the treatment was expressed by 81.4% of respondents. The psychiatrists considered that for many patients ECT may be the safest, cheapest and most effective treatment (79.8%), disagreed that ECT should be used as a last resort (68.4%) and disagreed that drugs have made ECT obsolete (81%). While many (44.1%) opined that use of ECT should be curtailed, few (5.3%) considered that ECT should he abandoned - in fact, most respondents. (86.3%) stated that comprehensive psychiatric care should include ECT services. A need was expressed for explicit guidelines for proper use of ECT (77.2%). Conflicting opinions were expressed about the use of ECT in children. Many psychiatrists (38%) thought that ECT may produce subtle brain damage: nevertheless, of those actively using ECT, 82.9% expressed willingness to receive ECT themselves, if indicated
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spelling pubmed-29670842011-05-16 INDIAN PSYCHIATRISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY Agarwal, A.K. Andrade, Chittaranjan Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A questionnaire on ECT, tapping attitudes, usage and experience, was mailed to all medical members of the Indian Psychiatric Society whose addresses were known; 263 (28.8%) of 913 psychiatrists responded. This paper describes Indian psychiatrists attitudes towards ECT. A global attitude favouring the treatment was expressed by 81.4% of respondents. The psychiatrists considered that for many patients ECT may be the safest, cheapest and most effective treatment (79.8%), disagreed that ECT should be used as a last resort (68.4%) and disagreed that drugs have made ECT obsolete (81%). While many (44.1%) opined that use of ECT should be curtailed, few (5.3%) considered that ECT should he abandoned - in fact, most respondents. (86.3%) stated that comprehensive psychiatric care should include ECT services. A need was expressed for explicit guidelines for proper use of ECT (77.2%). Conflicting opinions were expressed about the use of ECT in children. Many psychiatrists (38%) thought that ECT may produce subtle brain damage: nevertheless, of those actively using ECT, 82.9% expressed willingness to receive ECT themselves, if indicated Medknow Publications 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC2967084/ /pubmed/21584045 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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INDIAN PSYCHIATRISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
title INDIAN PSYCHIATRISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
title_full INDIAN PSYCHIATRISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
title_fullStr INDIAN PSYCHIATRISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
title_full_unstemmed INDIAN PSYCHIATRISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
title_short INDIAN PSYCHIATRISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
title_sort indian psychiatrists' attitudes towards electroconvulsive therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584045
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