title: Self-report of improvement following hospitalization for electroconvulsive therapy: relationship to functional status and service use.
abstract: From the perspective of the consumer, improvement is important in the assessment of treatment outcome. In order to gain a better understanding of health related factors that are meaningful to service recipients, patients who had been hospitalized for electroconvulsive therapy were surveyed following discharge to the community. Self-reported improvement was related to frequency of social contact and being able to engage in useful work. It was also related to a global-assessment-of-functioning score at the time of discharge from the hospital. The receipt of aftercare was not related to the degree of self-reported improvement in this study.
authors.affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Department of Health Services Research and Management, Rm. 1C165 HSC Building, 3601 Fourth Street, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA. sombmr@ttuhsc.edu
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Rohland
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000359:Aftercare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D016896:Treatment Outcome