@article{3097247,
    title = "A survey of the attitudes of Greek medical students toward
electroconvulsive therapy",
    author = "Papakosta, VMI and Zervas, IM and Pehlivanidis, A and Papadimitriou, GN and and Papakostas, YG",
    journal = "The Journal of ECT",
    year = "2005",
    volume = "21",
    number = "3",
    pages = "162-164",
    publisher = "Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins",
    issn = "1095-0680, 1533-4112",
    doi = "10.1097/01.yct.0000170036.13610.a9",
    keywords = "electroconvulsive therapy; attitudes; medical students; educational
lecture",
    abstract = "Data on attitudes toward electroconvulsive therapy have been reported
from various countries; no information, however, is available from
Greece. In this survey, we report the results of a questionnaire
reflecting the general attitude of Greek medical students toward ECT. A
total of 161 sixth (final)-year medical students who had no previous
exposure to a formal didactic experience on ECT, were asked to complete
a questionnaire before attending a scheduled 90-minute lecture on ECT,
as part of their regular curriculum. Questions in the questionnaire
could be grouped to indicate a positive, a reserved, or a negative
attitude toward ECT Overall, before the lecture, 50.3% held a positive
attitude toward ECT, 43.5% were reserved, and 6.2% held a negative
attitude. A subgroup of these students (n = 137) were asked again to
score the same questionnaire immediately following the lecture to rate
the impact of the didactic seminar. The proportion of students with a
positive attitude after the lecture was increased to 78.1%, (P <
0.001), while the proportion of students with reserved and negative
attitudes were reduced to 20.4% (P < 0.001) and 1.5%, respectively.
These encouraging findings reflect, however, only the immediate effects
of the lecture and do not guarantee persistence of this change in
attitudes over time."
}