Abstract
. Most of the quality of life (QOL) studies on BD emphasize the negative impact in the different QOL domains at all disease stages, but mainly the depressive episodes. Few studies have investigated QOL of bipolar patients during euthymia.Thus, the present study aims to compare QOL scores in BD type I euthymic patients at two different times, with an interval of 2.5 years (only 38 from 84 could be compared due to absence of euthymia, refusal to participate, unknown location and death).The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D-17 ≤ 7)
Highlights
Disorder (BD) type I has a prevalence of between 1.0% and 1.6% in the general population and is one of the twenty major causes on the worldwide list of diseases that compromise an individual’s total functioning[1,2,3]
Most of the quality of life (QOL) studies on BD emphasize the negative impact in the different QOL domains at all disease stages, but mainly the depressive episodes
The physical, social and psychological health domains presented reductions, but these reductions were only significant in the psychological health domain (p = 0.02) (Table 1)
Summary
Disorder (BD) type I has a prevalence of between 1.0% and 1.6% in the general population and is one of the twenty major causes on the worldwide list of diseases that compromise an individual’s total functioning[1,2,3]. 1 Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, BA, Brazil. 3 Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB), Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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