Impact on psychiatric interns of watching live electroconvulsive treatment.

Objective: Watching a live electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) has both positive and negative effects on spectators. The authors aim to survey the attitude change towards ECT in interns after watching a live ECT session.

Methods: A 23-item questionnaire was administered to 66 interns before and after watching ECT.

Survey of referrals to electroconvulsive therapy in Hungary.

Background: The diagnostic distribution of patients treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Hungary is significantly different from that in Western Europe or the USA. In Hungary most of the treated patients are diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Aim: To analyze the practice of referring patients for ECT in Hungary.

[Psychiatric disorders leading to noncompliance in a consultative psychiatric practice].

Introduction: Noncompliance is a complex problem which can appear in each phase of the medical treatment. Lack of cooperation can cause difficulties in the examinations, during the invasive interventions following the diagnostic process, and also in the pharmacological treatment. Among the reasons leading to noncompliance, psychiatric disorders concomitant with somatic disturbances play a major role.

[Impact of comorbid psychiatric disorders on the length of stay and the cost of medical treatment among geriatric patients treated on internal medicine wards].

Introduction: Coexistence of psychiatric comorbidity is very common in patients hospitalized with somatic problems. Several studies have shown that comorbid dementia increases the length of stay (LOS) in hospitals. The literature is more contradictory in the case of anxiety disorders, substance-related disorders, mood disorders and delirium.

[Gerontopsychiatric problems in a consultation-liaison practice].

Unlabelled: The most effective way for the diagnosing and the treatment of psychopathological symptoms appearing in non-psychiatric hospitalized patients is the utilization of consultation-liaison psychiatry. With the increasing number of the elderly patients, number of appearing gerontopsychiatric problems in consultation work is also growing.

Aim: We have studied among the patients of a consultation-liaison service the problems which led to the psychiatric consultations, the diagnoses which were set up, the concomitant somatic disorders and the treatment recommendations.