Efficacy of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Bipolar Disorder with Mixed Features

Table 2

Clinical characteristics of the sample of episodes ().

	Bipolar depressed episodes	Bipolar manic episodes	Bipolar mixed episodes	value
	( = 28)	( = 4)	( = 18)
Number of ECT sessions, mean ± SD	5.9 ± 3.2	6.8 ± 3.3	5.1 ± 2.2	0.336
Length of hospitalization during the episode, in days, mean ± SD	39.2 ± 30.2	57.0 ± 22.3	44.7 ± 54.5	0.250
Continuation ECT, (%)	10 (35.7%)	3 (75.0%)	11 (61.1%)	0.174
Readmission due to affective relapse, (%)	10 (35.7%)	0 (0%)	8 (44.4%)	0.179

Kruskal-Wallis test, , df = 2; Kruskal-Wallis test, , df = 2; Freeman-Halton extension of the Fisher Exact Probability.