Health‐related quality of life in bipolar disorder

Abstract

HRQOL is significantly adversely affected in BD patients. Additionally, the presence of comorbid conditions highly prevalent in BD further decreases HRQOL for these patients. In spite of these factors, this review offers renewed hope as several treatment regimens correlate with higher post-intervention HRQOL scores.

Evaluación de la calidad de vida de pacientes bipolares chilenos: propiedades psicométricas y utilidad diagnóstica de la versión chilena del cuestionario Quality of Life Bipolar Disorder (QoL.BD-CL)

“…Por otra parte, se estableció que los pacientes bipolares obtienen puntajes significativamente menores que el grupo no clínico, tanto en el cuestionario SF-36v.2 como en el QoL.BD-CL (p < 0,001). Esta diferencia en la percepción de la calidad de vida es congruente con los resultados de estudios previos 4,12,17,18,19 . Es importante destacar que se obtuvo información referida a la sensibilidad y especificidad del instrumento, aspecto que no se había informado previamente.…”

The functional exercise capacity in patients with bipolar disorder versus healthy controls: A pilot study

“…Next to a higher risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) (Prieto et al, 2014) and associated increased mortality rates (Fiedorowicz et al, 2014), patients with bipolar disorder are more likely to experience an impaired quality of life (IsHak et al, 2012). Relative to the extensive literature now available on many aspects of CVD in bipolar disorder (Swarz & Fagiolini, 2012;Smith et al, 2013;Vancampfort et al, 2013a), there is limited evidence available concerning the influence of increased medical co-morbidities on the functional limitations in daily living in patients with bipolar disorder.…”

Bipolar bozuklukta işleyiş ve yaşam kalitesi

“…Thus, when symptom reduction is obtained, it is expected to obtain improvement in psychosocial functioning. However, even with this improvement, patients do not achieve premorbid level of functioning (5). In our study, we found that second generation antipsychotics (SGA) in combination with mood stabilizers (MS) seem to affect psychosocial functioning negatively (28).…”