作者
Larriany Maria Falsin Giglio, Pedro Vieira da Silva Magalhães, Ana Cristina Andreazza, Julio Cesar Walz, Lourenço Jakobson, Paola Rucci, Adriane Ribeiro Rosa, Maria Paz Hidalgo, Eduard Vieta, Flávio Kapczinski
发表日期
2009/11/1
期刊
Journal of affective disorders
卷号
118
期号
1-3
页码范围
161-165
出版商
Elsevier
简介
INTRODUCTION
As several lines of evidence point to irregular biological rhythms in bipolar disorder, and its disruption may lead to new illness episodes, having an instrument that measures biological rhythms is critical. This report describes the validation of a new instrument, the Biological Rhythms Interview of Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (BRIAN), designed to assess biological rhythms in the clinical setting.
METHODS
Eighty-one outpatients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and 79 control subjects matched for type of health service used, sex, age and educational level were consecutively recruited. After a pilot study, 18 items evaluating sleep, activities, social rhythm and eating pattern were probed for discriminant, content and construct validity, concurrent validity with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), internal consistency and test-retest reliability.
RESULTS
A three-factor solution, termed sleep/social …
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