the attitudes of psychiatric patients' accompaniers towards electro-convulsive therapy

Unilateral electro-convulsive therapy.

ELECTRO-CONVULSIVE therapy was first introduced by Cerletti and Bini in 1938, and has now become the principal physical method of therapy in psychiatry. Unhappily, whilst this method of treatment is at present enjoying such deserved popularity, it is not without undesirable effects, some of which may be quite insidious. Modification by relaxants has resulted in a change in importance of its com...

Electro-convulsive Therapy : a Review

Eversince its discovery by Gerletti and Bini (1938), electro-convulsive therapy (E. C. T.) has continued to occupy a central place in the therapeutic armamentarium of psychiatrists. Despite abhorrence from some quarters, it is still being practiced as one of the cheapest and safest, and yet one of the most effective therapeutic techniques in the whole of medical science (Kalinowsky, 1975; Royal...

The knowledge and attitudes of mental health nurses to electro-convulsive therapy.

Three hundred and forty-five questionnaires containing the knowledge and attitude scale for ECT devised by Janicak et al. (1985) were distributed to mental health nurses working in Wales, the data were collected from the 167 returned. Limitations in the reliability of the instrument with respect to the degree of internal consistency were found, this suggested that the knowledge statements used ...

Cardiovascular Changes following Electro-convulsive Therapy.

Electro-convulsive therapy was first used extensively in 1939, and with such success that three years later Kolb and Vogel (1942) in a survey ofthe United States reported its use in 42 per cent of mental hospitals and in the treatment of 2-3 per cent of all mental hospital patients; this latter group was comprised of the schizophrenias, the manic-depressive states, involutional melancholias, an...

The mode of action of electro-convulsive therapy.

EVALUTION OF UNILATERAL ELECTRO-CONVULSIVE THERAPY (A double blind study)

A double blind study of one hundred twenty patients ( ninety schizophrenics and thirty depressives )-who were divided equally into three groups, who received either (a) bilateral ECT or (b) unilateral application of electrodes on non-dominant hemisphere or (c) unilateral on dominant hemisphere was conducted. The three groups were compared regarding efficacy of the therapy, effects on memory, sp...