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Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder

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Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex clinical syndrome where patients alternate episodes of mania and depression with intervals of euthymia. In addition, BD has been recently shown to induce cognitive and functioning impairment that may worsen with cumulative episodes. Such new findings brought to the field the need of assessing a more general appraisal of patients about the course of their illness. The construct of “quality of life” (QOL) has provided the field with a means to assess the suffering and subjective burden related to BD. In the present chapter, we will present new data on how QOL is changed by mood states and the extent to which QOL may serve as a psychometric construct related to comorbidities, cognition, functioning and the ability of the patient to be aware of his own illness. Overall, QOL seems to provide a useful tool to assess acute states of BD illness as well as the enduring changes related to the illness such as functional and cognitive decline.

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Abbreviations

BD:

bipolar disorder

ECA:

epidemiological catchment area study

FAST:

functioning assessment short test

GAD:

generalized anxiety disorder

GAF:

global assessment of functioning

HRQOL:

health-related quality of life

OCD:

obsessive compulsive disorder

PTSD:

post-traumatic stress disorder

QOL:

quality of life

SoP:

social phobia

SP:

specific phobia

SUD:

substance use disorder

WHO:

World Health Organization

WHOQOL-BREF:

World Health Organization Quality of Life – Abbreviated Version

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  1. Dept. Nutrition and Dietetics Nutritional Sciences Research Division School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, King's College London, Franklin‐Wilkins Building 150 Stamford Street, SE1 9NH, London, UK

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Cardoso, B.M. et al. (2010). Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder. In: Preedy, V.R., Watson, R.R. (eds) Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_208

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