Abstract

Introduction:Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective and safe treatment, a significant proportion of patients are afraid of the treatment. Too often, this ECT-related anxiety makes patients refuse or discontinue ECT. A reliable questionnaire designed to measure ECT-related anxiety is currently not available. We report the development and psychometric evaluation of the ECT-related anxiety questionnaire (ERAQ), a questionnaire that measures anxiety with respect to ECT in clinical practice.

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