Electroconvulsive Therapy and Health Care Providers' Perceptions of the Effect of Media on Patients' Decisions
Description
Patients receive electroconvulsive therapy every day in the United States but negative media representations of the therapy put doubts in the minds of potential patients as to whether or not they should go through with the therapy or not. The purpose of this study was to explore how health care providers perceive the influence of media on patient decision-making regarding whether or not to receive electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and how they might address the perceived effects of said media. A total of 16 articles were analyzed in a literature review regarding the media's portrayal of ECT and/or how it affected patients and one interview with a physician was conducted. It was found that while the current literature still largely focuses on the negative media and its implications on patient decision-making, the physician had a more positive viewpoint. As a whole, the literature and physician agreed that media played a role in patients' decisions, but the media's portrayal of the therapy was not seen as negatively by the physician.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2013-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Issar, Stephanie Marie
- Thesis director: Pickens, Judith
- Committee member: Sayles, Judy
- Committee member: Fargotstein, Barbara
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College
- Contributor (ctb): Arizona State University. College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation
- Contributor (ctb): Department of Psychology
- Contributor (ctb): School of Human Evolution and Social Change