PMID: 11924747Apr 2, 2002Paper

Outcome measures of interepisode bipolar patients in a Turkish sample

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Suzan OzerMeram Can Saka

Abstract

We aimed to study the correlations of several outcome measures in bipolar patients with the clinical features of interepisode period. Bipolar patients who were diagnosed according to DSM-III-R or IV were contacted and asked for a further evaluation. Interepisode bipolar patients (n = 100) were interviewed with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS). In addition the Brief Disability Questionnaire (BDQ), the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire (Q-LES-Q) and the Global Assessment Scale (GAS) were administered to assess outcome. They were also asked to check the List of Life Events (LLE) for the last six months. Our results can be summarised as follows: (1) quality of life was predicted by current subthreshold depressive symptoms; (2) the number of previous depressive episodes, current subthreshold depressive and manic symptoms predicted disability; (3) the number of previous depressive episodes and the duration of hospitalisation as well as current subthreshold depressive and manic symptoms predicted overall functioning; (4) the number and distress level of life events were correlated with suicidal symptoms. Our findings suggest that outcome measures were correlated with subsyndromal dis...Continue Reading

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