The current study is cross sectional retrospective study, included 100 patients were diagnosed as mood disorder bipolar I (manic episodes) according to DSM5, patients recruited from inpatient psychiatric unit at department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut University hospitals The current work is designed to study the effect of duration of untreated bipolar disorder on clinical outcome ( severity , residual symptoms ,duration of hospital admission) and to study factors affecting duration of untreatment in Upper Egypt.
Mood disorder carries a major burden in our country as it represents 15% of inpatients and 20% of outpatients in mental hospitals in Egypt The current work is designed to study the effect of duration of untreated bipolar disorder on clinical outcome ( severity , residual symptoms ,duration of hospital admission) and to study factors affecting duration of untreatment in Upper Egypt. The current study is cross sectional retrospective study, included 100 patients were diagnosed as mood disorder bipolar I (manic episodes) according to DSM5, patients recruited from inpatient psychiatric unit at department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut University hospitals
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
questionnaires to the patients and their family after their written consent
Assiut university
Asyut, Egypt
measure the effect of duration of untreated bipolar disorder on severity (young mania rating scale on admission
To study the effect of duration of untreated bipolar disorder (manic episodes) on clinical outcomes (severity).
Time frame: one year
To measure the effect of duration of untreated bipolar disorder (manic episodes) on clinical outcomes (severity, residual symptoms, duration of admission).
residual symptoms measured by young mania rating scale on discharge
Time frame: one year
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