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A Study of Factors Associated with Response to Electroconvulsive Therapy in Patients with Schizophrenic Symptoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Dodwell  and
David Goldberg
David Dodwell*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham
David Goldberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester
*
∗University Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH
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Abstract

Seventeen patients with schizophrenic symptoms were assessed before and after ECT to elicit possible factors predictive of outcome. The strongest associations with good outcome were shown by short duration of illness and paucity of premorbid schizoid personality traits; significant associations were also shown by short duration of current episode, paucity of paranoid premorbid personality traits, and the presence of perplexity. The diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder was not related to outcome. Questionnaires completed by 16 patients after ECT showed their attitudes to be generally favourable to the procedure.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 5 , May 1989 , pp. 635 - 639
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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