The trend of ect in an Iraqi teaching Hospital

Abstract EN

This study analyzes the pattern of use of electroconvulsion therapy (ECT) in Iraqi teaching psychiatric hospitals between first Jan 2008and first July 2008.ECT was used in (100) patients (9.4 %) out of (940) patients admitted during the period under consideration.

About one-third of patients to whom ECT was given were schizophrenics, one-third were patients with acute psychotic disorders (according to DSM-IV criteria or ICD-10 ), one-fifth were depressed and the remaining with other psychiatric disorders.