Table 13: Mean HDRS Scores and Percent Change.
| Baseline | End of treatment |
Percent change |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| rTMS (SD) (n = 13) |
32.2 (6.8) | 13.9 (11.1) | 55% (36) |
| ECT (SD) (n = 9) |
31.4 (8.5) | 10.9 (9.5) | 64% (30) |
| TOTAL (SD) (n = 22) |
31.9 (7.4) | 12.8 (10.4) | 59% (33) |
HDRS, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale; rTMS, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; ECT, electroconvulsive therapy.
Reprinted from Biololgical Psychiatry, 51(8), Janicak PG, Dowd SM, Martis B, Alam D, Beedle D, Krasuski J et al. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation versus electroconvulsive therapy for major depression: preliminary results of a randomized trial, p. 659-667, Copyright 2002, with permission from the Society of Biological Psychiatry (61)