The Journal of Neurobehavioral Sciences

Yazarlar: Ünsalver Barış Önen , Evrensel Alper , Sayar Gökben Hızlı , Karamustafalıoğlu Oğuz , Tarhan Nevzat

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DOI:10.5455/JNBS.1574788023

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Özet: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is not widely used in the world. Besides financial constraints like limited allocation of funds for psychiatric clinics, psychiatrists’ knowledge and attitudes regarding TMS may limit its widespread use. Therefore, this survey study aimed to examine the knowledge and attitudes of Turkish psychiatrists towards TMS. An online survey that was developed by the researchers containing 26 questions about physicians’ demographic data and their knowledge and attitudes towards TMS was sent to a closed e-mail group of psychiatrists and assistant psychiatrists. The study sample comprised 46 women and 61 men. Having knowledge about TMS statistically significantly affected participants’ approaches to accept TMS as a promising treatment, approve the spread of TMS as a treatment modality, desire to have more information about the mechanism of action of TMS (p=0.006; p=0.019 and p=0.013, respectively), whereas it didn’t statistically significantly affect their approaches to accept TMS as an effective treatment method, consider TMS as a misleading treatment for patients, use TMS only in the treatment of treatment-resistant depression patients (p=0.060, p=0.065, and p=0.136, respectively). Most of the psychiatrists who completed the survey in Turkey had a positive view of TMS and wanted to increase their knowledge. It may be appropriate to increase the number of presentations on TMS therapy at psychiatry meetings and encourage residents to make observations in clinics where TMS is administered, during psychiatric residency.

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