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Reprinted from the German Journal of Psychiatry · http://www. gjpsy. uni-goettingen. de · ISSN 1433-1055
Disability and Quality of Life in Euthymic Patients with Bipolar Affective or Recurrent Depressive Disorder Hema Tharoor1, 2, Podila Satya Venkata Narasimha Sharma1, Ashutosh Chauhan3 of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 3Department of Behavorial Sciences and Mental Health, Sahyadiri Hospitals Ltd., Pune, India
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Corresponding author: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Campus Box 8134, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA, Email hematharoor@hotmail. com
Abstract Background: There are major health care implications of Quality of Life and Disability in long-standing disorders such as bipolar affective disorder and recurrent depressive disorder. Objectives: To compare the inter episode Quality of life (QOL) and Disability in patients with the diagnosis of Bipolar affective disorder or Recurrent depressive disorder in remission. Methods: The two groups were assessed cross-sectionally. Euthymic bipolar or recurrent depressive disorder subjects were included in the study. QOL assessment was done using the World Health Organisation (WHO) QOL – Bref Kannada version. Disability was assessed using the Schedule for assessment of psychiatric disability (SAPD), which is an Indian modification of the WHO Disability assessment schedule-II. Results: There were 80 patients enrolled into the study. The mean QOL scores did not differ significantly in the two groups except for the RDD subjects experiencing higher environmental domain QOL (p=.05). The mean disability scores in the BAD group was significantly more in ‘social role’ (p
