Improvements in Health-Related Quality of Life With Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Meta-analysis

Conclusions An acute course of ECT for depressive symptoms produces medium to very large effect size improvements in HRQoL across multiple components and subscales measured by the SF-36. The magnitude of the effects reported by ECT patients is greater than those that have been reported in other open-label studies of brain stimulation techniques. This study confirms that ECT plays a vital role in the treatment of the most severely ill patients with depressive disorders.
Source: The Journal of ECT - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Reviews Source Type: research