Published online:
02 August 2009
Summary
Every person for whom electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment choice has the right to up-to-date information about ECT in New Zealand. This consumer information pack provides information and answers to the many questions someone considering ECT as a treatment choice, is likely to have about ECT.
The booklet contains information covering what individuals and their families and whānau need to know when considering ECT as a treatment choice. The booklet includes:
- what ECT is and why ECT is recommended as a treatment option
- how ECT is thought to work
- how a treatment of ECT is given and what you can expect including side effects
- the informed consent process
- considerations for older people, Maori, Pacific peoples, and Asian peoples
- treatments that may be alternative to ECT