Moderating effects of diagnosis and gender on the influence of age on electroconvulsive therapy outcome

Acta Neuropsychiatr. 2024 Jun;36(3):185-186. doi: 10.1017/neu.2024.4. Epub 2024 Jan 31.

Authors

Eduardo Tedeschi¹, Mauricio S Hoffmann^{1

2

3}, Pedro V S Magalhães¹

Affiliations

¹ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Hospital de Clínicas dePorto Alegre, Centro de Pesquisa Clínica, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate Program in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
² Department of Neuropsychiatry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil.
³ Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

PMID: 38291881
DOI: 10.1017/neu.2024.4

No abstract available

Keywords: age; electroconvulsive therapy; mental disorders; therapeutic effectiveness; treatment response.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Depressive Disorder, Major / diagnosis
Depressive Disorder, Major / therapy
Electroconvulsive Therapy* / methods
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Schizophrenia / diagnosis
Schizophrenia / therapy
Sex Factors
Treatment Outcome