Determining Correlations Between Emergency Department Health Care Workers and their Associated Burnout and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Scores: A Pilot Study.

Introduction: Health care workers experience settings that can contribute to burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder. Early identification of health care workers at risk for burnout/post-traumatic stress disorder may allow for quicker implementation of mitigation strategies despite limited research. This pilot study explores associations between burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder with demographic and occupational factors in health care workers.

Long-term quality of life in treatment-resistant depression after electroconvulsive therapy.

Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is highly effective for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), and previous studies have demonstrated short-term improvements in quality of life (QoL) after ECT.  However, long-term QoL after ECT has not been studied, and the baseline patient characteristics that predict long-term QoL remain unknown.

Methods: Seventy-nine subjects with unipolar or bipolar TRD were enrolled in this prospective longitudinal observational study.