Quality of Life among Patients with Bipolar Disorder | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 22, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2018, Page 305-315 PDF (272.22 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2018.46498 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Sorayia Ramadan Abdel -Fatah; Nevien Mostafa El- Ashry; Tabasem Fayez Fatahallah | ||||
| Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing,Faculty of Nursing /Ain Shams University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Schizophrenic polar disorder (BD) is the most common chronic illness, that afflicting in adolescence or early adulthood people during their peak productive ages. Aim: assessing quality of life & drug attitude inventory among patients with bipolar disorder. Setting: The study was conducted on 100 patients attending follow-up outpatient clinic of the Institute of Psychiatry at Ain Shams University. Tools: 1) Interviewing questionnaire containing the following parts: A) Socio-demographic sheet. B) History of illness. 2) World Health Organization Quality of Life – BREF Questionnaire (WHOQOL- BREF) instrument .3) Drug attitude inventory (DAI-30 items). Result: there are highly statistically significant correlation found between educational level, marital status ,age, gender as regard overall quality of life and four domain of quality of life with bipolar disorder patient (P= .000, , .000 , .000, and .000) respectively. additionally, there is highly statistically significant correlation between side effect of medication as regard overall quality of life domain with BD patient ( P= .000 ) respectively. as well as, there are (71%) had positive attitude towards drugs and there are highly statistically significant As well as, there are highly statistically significant correlation between gender, Age, and Adequacy of monthly income as regard drug attitude inventory( P= .000, .000, and.001 ) respectively. Conclusion: the assessment of QOL had a poor effect on overall QOL & psychological domain regarding bipolar disorder. Recommendation: incorporate non-drug therapy (psychosocial intervention) along with pharmacological therapies in BD management to improve quality of life of patients with BD. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Bipolar Disorder; quality of life | ||||
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