Publication date:
2 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
Video - ECT in New Zealand - What you, your family and whānau need to know
Publishing information
- Publication date
- Citation
Ministry of Health. 2009. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in New Zealand: What you and your family and whānau need to know. Wellington: Ministry of Health
- ISBN
- 978-0478-31915-6 (print), 978-0-478-31916-3 (online)
- HP number
- 4761
- Copyright status
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Owned by the Ministry of Health and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
