Electroconvulsive therapy in Poland in 2005--a nationwide questionnaire study performed in Polish psychiatric clinics
Palińska, D.; Gazdag, G.; Sobów, T.; Hese, R.T.; Kłoszewska, I.
Psychiatria Polska 42(6): 825-839
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2674 PMID: 19441662 Document Number: 615105
The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of ECT practice in Polish Psychiatric Clinics in 2005. A questionnaire was sent to all Polish psychiatric hospitals that performed electroconvulsive therapy in 2005. Altogether 450 patients (0.22% of the general number of psychiatric inpatients in 2005 and 0.72% of the inpatients of hospitals where electroconvulsive therapy was performed) were treated with ECT in Poland in 2005. The rate of ECT use in Poland is the lowest in the Central--East European region.