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Two open questions, about impact on the patient and on the relative\/friend, both elicited about three times as many negative impacts as positive ones.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The responses of the relatives\/friends are broadly similar to ECT recipients' responses to the same survey, reported elsewhere, which tends to support the accuracy of the ECT recipients' responses. 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