ECT: II: Patients Who Complain

ECT: II: Patients who Complain

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Table I
Means of personal variables for the groups

	Newspaper non-complainers N=13	Newspaper complainers N=14	Hospital Complainers N=12	Normal volunteer controls N=53
Male:Female	7:6	3:12*	2:10	1:2.3
Age (years)	56.8	50.6	52.7	52.9
Social Class	3.1	2.9	2.8	2.7
Education in years of schooling	10.3	11.5	11.3	11.2
Total no of ECT	10.1	13.9	9.9	NA
Time in years since ECT	12.8	9.3	2.6	NA
IQ	104	104	102	108

*One woman untestable (Alzheimer).

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Table 2
Comparison of ECT subjects with normal volunteers by mean scores

	All ECT subjects	Normals	Significance
	N=39	N=53
Wakefield self-rating scale	17.2	7.9	P <0.001
Middlesex Hospital questionnaire
Total symptom score	42.3	24.2	P <0.001
Sub scales
Free floating anxiety	10.1	5.5	P <0.001
Phobic fear	6.3	3.3	P <0.001
Obsessive symptoms and personality	9.7	6.8	P <0.001
Somatization complaints	7.7	5.0	P <0.001
Depression	8.5	4.6	P <0.001
Hysterical extravert personality	4.4	3.9	NS
Broadbent cognitive failures questionnaire	73.9	63.9	P <0.01

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Table 3
Relative illness of ECT complainers vs non-complainers

	ECT complainers	ECT non-complainers
	N=26	N=13	Significance
Wakefield	19.1	13.2	P <0.005
Middlesex	43.3	40.4	P <0.001
Medication	2.3	0.8	P <0.005

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Table 4
All ECT subjects vs normal volunteers on cognitive tests

	ECT subjects	Volunteers
Test	N=39	N=53	Significance
Personal remote memory	38.8	40.5	P <.05

Logical memory	9.5	12.5	P <.001

Famous personalities
from past 1960s	11.6	14.4	P <.001
1970s	13.9	15.8	P <.001

Verbal memory sensitivity	2.7	4.0	P <.001

Face-name connection	5.7	7.1	P <.02

Decision time (m/secs)	445.6	353.7	P <.001

Movement time (m/secs)	365.9	258.3	P <.001

(t test independent)

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There were non-significant differences on:
Delayed recall, Delayed recognition, Famous personalities from past 1930s, 40s and 50s, Verbal learning, Spatial positional learning, Visual design learning, Anomalous sentence repetition, Perceptual aptitude, Incidental visual memory.

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Table 5
Comparison of ECT complainers vs ECT non-complainers

	ECT complainers	ECT non-complainers
Test	N=26	N=13	Significance
Verbal Learning	26.9	21.4	P <0.005
Famous personalities of 1960s	11.4	12.3	P <0.05
Logical memory	9.1	10.2	P <0.05

Table 6
Comparison of ECT non-complainers with normal volunteer controls

Test	ECT non-complainers	Volunteer controls	Significance
Movement time (m/sec)	304	267	P <0.005
Verbal learning	21.4	23.9	P <0.005*

*ECT non-complainers less impaired

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ECT: II: Patients who Complain

Accompanying Tables