作者
Tarek Asaad, Tarek Okasha, Hisham Ramy, Mohamed Fekry, Nivert Zaki, Hanan Azzam, Menan AbdelMaksoud Rabie, Soheir Elghoneimy, Marwa Sultan, Hani Hamed, Osama Refaat, Iman Shorab, Mahmoud Elhabiby, Tamer Elgweily, Hanan ElShinnawy, Mohamed Nasr, Heba Fathy, Marwa A Meguid, Doaa Nader, Doha Elserafi, Dalia Enaba, Dina Ibrahim, Marwa Elmissiry, Nesreen Mohsen, Sherin Ahmed
发表日期
2014/9/1
期刊
Journal of affective disorders
卷号
166
页码范围
347-352
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background and objectives
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex, chronic mood disorder involving repeated episodes of depression and mania/hypomania. Two thirds of patients with bipolar disorder have a comorbid psychiatric condition. This study aims to assess the prevalence of Axis I diagnosis with its socio-demographic and clinical correlates among a sample of Egyptian patients with bipolar disorder.
Methods
Out of the 400 patients who were enrolled in the study from number of governmental and private psychiatric hospitals in Cairo, Egypt, 350 patients diagnosed with bipolar affective disorders (157 females and 193 males) with age ranging from 18 to 55 years were selected. Patients were assessed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I disorder (Research Version) (SCID-I).
Results
Prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity among BD patients was 20.3% (71 patients) among which 63 patients (18 …
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