Social Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder: Pilot Study
| Autor: | Márcia Britto de Macedo-Soares, Cristiana Castanho de Almeida Rocca, Cilly Klüger Issler, Beny Lafer, Rodrigo da Silva Dias, Clarice Gorenstein, Angela Maria Schwartzmann, Renata Sayuri Tamada |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Male Bipolar Disorder Adjustment disorders Pilot Projects Social Environment Severity of Illness Index Developmental psychology Life Change Events Judgment Social skills Surveys and Questionnaires Prevalence medicine Openness to experience Humans Bipolar disorder Social Behavior Wechsler Scales Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale General Medicine medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Comprehension Psychiatry and Mental health Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Cognition Disorders Psychology Anxiety disorder Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 42:686-692 |
| ISSN: | 1440-1614 0004-8674 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00048670802203426 |
| Popis: | Objective: The purpose of the present study was to assess the social skills of euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Methods: A group of 25 outpatients with bipolar disorder type I were evaluated in comparison with a group of 31 healthy volunteers who were matched in terms of level of education, age, sex and intelligence. Both groups were assessed using a self-report questionnaire, the Brazilian Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (IHS, Social Skills Inventory). Two Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale subtests (Picture Arrangement and Comprehension) were also used in order to assess subject ability to analyse social situations and to make judgements, respectively. Results: Patients with bipolar disorder had lower IHS scores for the domains that assessed conversational skills/social self-confidence and social openness to new people/situations. Patients with anxiety disorders had high scores for the domain that assessed self-confidence in the expression of positive emotions. No differences were found between patients and controls in performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Picture Arrangement and Comprehension subtests. Conclusions: Euthymic patients with bipolar disorder present inhibited and overattentive behaviour in relation to other people and their environment. This behaviour might have a negative impact on their level of social functioning and quality of life. |
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