Treatment Capacity and Clinical Outcomes for Patients With Schizophrenia Who Were Treated With Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with schizophrenia are often found incapable to consent to psychiatric treatment. We evaluated clinical outcomes for incapable and capable patients with schizophrenia treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

Methods

We conducted a chart review of all inpatients treated with an acute course of ECT between 2010 and 2018 at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada. Short-term outcomes included treatment response and cognitive impairment. We assessed whether incapable patients regained the capacity to consent to treatment. Long-term outcomes included readmissions and subsequent courses of acute or maintenance ECT.

Results

A total of 159 (67%) incapable and 79 (33%) capable patients were included. Patients experienced treatment r

SUBMITTER: Plahouras JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7965065 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature