Research Article
Efficacy of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Bipolar Disorder with Mixed Features
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the sample of patients (
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| | | Bipolar depressed patients | Bipolar manic patients | Bipolar mixed patients | value | | ( = 22) | ( = 4) | ( = 15) |
| | Females, (%) | 17 (77.3%) | 2 (50%) | 11 (73.3%) | 0.528 |
| | Age, in years, on 31 July 2011, mean ± SD | 57.9 ± 19.0 | 42.9 ± 13.1 | 45.0 ± 15.5 | 0.089 |
| | Age, in years, at 1st admission due to affective episode, mean ± SD | 51.4 ± 19.4 | 32.8 ± 13.8 | 38.9 ± 16.0 | 0.061 |
| | Number of previous admissions, mean ± SD | 1.8 ± 2.7 | 4.0 ± 1.4 | 2.7 ± 2.4 | 0.057 |
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Freeman-Halton extension of the Fisher Exact Probability test; Kruskal Wallis test, , df = 2; Kruskal Wallis test, , df = 2; Kruskal Wallis test, , df = 2.
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