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Are patients' attitudes towards and knowledge of electroconvulsive therapy transcultural?
— a multi-national pilot study | | Author(s) | Julian Bustin, Mark J Rapoport, Murah Krishna |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 23, no 5, May 2008 |
| Pages | pp 497-503 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Psychiatric treatment ; Attitude ; Pilot ; Cross cultural surveys ; England ; Canada ; Argentina. |
| Annotation | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective yet controversial treatment. Most patients receiving ECT have depression, and it is likely that most of them are older people. However, attitudes toward and knowledge of ECT in this population has never been studied in relation to patients' cultural background. This study compared attitudes and knowledge of ECT in older depressed patients in three culturally different populations. A total of 75 patients were recruited: 30 from England, 30 from Argentina, and 15 from Canada. There was a significant difference in knowledge about ECT across the three countries. No significant differences were found in terms of attitudes. Knowledge was poor in all three countries. The most influential factor shaping subjects' attitudes and knowledge of ECT differed for the three countries. A weak correlation was found between knowledge of and attitudes towards ECT across all patients from the three countries. Attitudes towards ECT are a very complex phenomenon. No evidence could be found that a particular cultural background affects attitudes towards ECT. Generalising the results of the study is restricted by the fact that this was a pilot study that suffered from limitations including small sample size and number of settings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080618206 A |
| Classmark | ENR: LP: DP: 4UC: 3KA: 82: 7S: 7W8 |
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