Clinical and socio-demographic profile of bipolar I disorder patients

Abstract

Introduction

The bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic and severe disease which diagnosis and treatment are still raising the issues.

Aims

To show a potential clinical and socio-demographic profile in BD patients.

Objective

We hypothesized that BD patients have a particular clinical and socio-demographic characteristics.

Methods

This was a descriptive and retrospective study which assesses 49 BD's outpatients. The diagnosis was accorded to DSM-IV criteria. The enrollment was conducted from January 2010 to August 2015. The socio-demographic and clinical data were collected by a preestablished railing.

Results

The mean age was 39.7 years with a sex ratio of 1.33. Six patients (12.2%) lived in urban zones and 61% (n = 30) patients have a lowly socioeconomic conditions. Celibacy was the prevailing civil status in 57.1% (n = 28) among which 17 lived in family home. Thirty-four (69.4%) patients were unemployed.

A primary school level was found in 34.7% of the cases (n = 17). Nineteen patients (38.8%) were schooled until the secondary level and 9 patients (18.4%) followed a university program.

Addiction to smoking was found at 26 patients (53%) whose half of them had moreover an alcoholic poisoning. The mean age at the diagnosis was 35.6 years with an inaugural manic episode in 63.4% (n = 31) of the cases. The average number of relapse was 1.23 and the mean duration of follow-up was 3.2 years.

Conclusion

The knowledge of the profile of the consultants, their socio-demographic and clinical characteristics would allow to adapt the offer of care to the request.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.