Abstract
This letter bears reference to the study titled “Assessment of disability in bipolar affective disorder and alcohol use disorder – a descriptive study” by S Bondade, CY Sudarshan and S Begum, published in Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 6 (2) December 2015 (1). All authors deserve appreciation for conducting such a study where disability was assessed in an objective manner in different domain of life in two commonpsychiatric disorders – bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) and alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS). The authors have assessed disability in BPAD not only during episodes of illness but also during the intere-pisodic period.
Highlights
The authors mention that they excluded subjects with physical and psychiatric conditions
It will be useful to know about nature of physical and psychiatric disorders among the ADS subjects which were excluded from this study
Many psychiatric disorders like delirium tremens, alcohol induced psychosis, alcohol induced cognitive disorder are more common with severe alcohol dependence (2)
Summary
J Rohilla, Department of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore 2. In the methodology, the authors mention that they excluded subjects with physical and psychiatric conditions.
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