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Organized Electroconvulsive Therapy Patients Challenge Flawed Research on `Quality of Life'.

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| November 05, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2009 PR Newswire Association LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

NEW YORK, and WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP) - a national organization of recipients of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - has challenged a new study from Wake Forest University, calling it scientifically worthless. The study claims that treatment with ECT improves patients' quality of life and functioning.

"The author, W. Vaughn McCall, did not disclose that he is president of the ECT industry trade organization, the Association for Convulsive Therapy, which could bias his research towards minimizing the risks of ECT," says CTIP director Linda Andre. McCall undertook his study after the British government…

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