Changes in self-reported suicidal ideation during treatment with electroconvulsive therapy: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Suicidal ideation (SI) is common in patients with depressive symptoms, who are the most common recipients of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). We sought to quantify changes in self-reported SI occurring during treatment with ECT, and to identify factors associated with persistence of SI in patients beginning treatment with SI.

Method

Retrospective, single-center cohort study of patients receiving ECT and who self-reported symptoms using Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS) prior to ECT and after treatment #5 or #10. Changes in QIDS-reported SI over the course of ECT were calculated, and logistic regression models were performed to assess factors associated with reporting SI at the end of treatment.

Results

2554 provided baseline and follow-up S

SUBMITTER: Luccarelli J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10843260 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature