The Effect of Counseling on Stigma in Psychiatric Patients Receiving Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Clinical Trial Study

Despite its efficacy and safety, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is underutilized, in part, due to the stigma associated with the treatment. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of counseling on stigma in patients with psychiatric disorders receiving ECT. A total of 114 patients with psychiatric...

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Veröffentlicht in:Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment 2019-12, Vol.15, p.3419-3427
Hauptverfasser: Sadeghian, Efat, Rostami, Parisa, Shamsaei, Farshid, Tapak, Lily
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Despite its efficacy and safety, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is underutilized, in part, due to the stigma associated with the treatment. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of counseling on stigma in patients with psychiatric disorders receiving ECT. A total of 114 patients with psychiatric disorders undergoing ECT were randomly divided into two groups. Both the groups received routine care and treatment, but the intervention group (n=57) received four counseling sessions. At the beginning and end of the study (6 weeks, post-treatment), patients completed the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale. The data were analyzed using independent and paired sample -tests. There was no significant difference in the mean stigma scores of participants in the control and intervention groups before counseling ( >0.08). However, post-intervention, there was a significant difference in the mean stigma scores between both the groups (
ISSN:1176-6328
1178-2021
1178-2021
DOI:10.2147/NDT.S233094