Use of electroconvulsive therapy for Asian patients with schizophrenia (2001-2009): Trends and correlates

Xiang YT 1 , Ungvari GS 2 , Correll CU 3 , Chiu HF 4 , Lai KY 4 , Wang CY 5 Show all authors , Si TM 6 , Lee EH 7 , He YL 8 , Yang SY 9 , Chong MY 10 , Kua EH 11 , Fujii S 12 , Sim K 13 , Yong MK 13 , Trivedi JK 14 , Chung EK 15 , Udomratn P 16 , Chee KY 17 , Sartorius N 18 , Tan CH 19 , Shinfuku N 20

Affiliations 

  • 1 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, China
  • 2 School of Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  • 3 Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, USA
  • 4 Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 5 Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
  • 6 Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Mental Health & Peking University Institute of Mental Health, Beijing, China
  • 7 Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 8 Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
  • 9 Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 10 Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Chang Gung, Taiwan
  • 11 Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Japan
  • 12 Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan
  • 13 Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok View, Singapore, Japan
  • 14 Department of Psychiatry, C. S. M. Medical University UP, Lucknow, India
  • 15 Department of Psychiatry, National Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea
  • 16 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand
  • 17 Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Tunku Abdul Rahman Institute of Neuroscience, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 18 Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 19 Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Japan
  • 20 School of Human Sciences, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2015 Aug;69(8):489-96.
PMID: 25708964 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.12283

Abstract

Little is known about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) use in Asian inpatients with schizophrenia. This study examined trends of ECT use for schizophrenia patients in Asia between 2001 and 2009 and its independent demographic and clinical correlates.

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