The Relationship Between Depression Symptoms and Anxiety Symptoms During Acute ECT for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated the efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in patients with major depressive disorder and concomitant anxiety symptoms and explored the relationships between depression symptoms and anxiety symptoms during acute electroconvulsive therapy.

Methods

Major depressive disorder inpatients (N = 130) requiring electroconvulsive therapy were recruited for a maximum of 12 treatments each. Depression symptoms, using the core factor subscale derived from the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, and anxiety symptoms, using the anxiety/somatization subscale from the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale-17, were assessed before electroconvulsive therapy, after every 3 electroconvulsive therapy treatments, and after the final electroconvulsive therapy. Both core f

SUBMITTER: Huang CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822139 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature