More than Half of Bipolar Patients attending Emanuel Mental Specialized Hospital has Poor Quality of Life, Emanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia: Facility- Based Cross-Sectional Study Design

Abstract

Background: Bipolar disorders area mental illness where changes in brain functions transform normal emotions to dramatic mood swing between mania and depression. Severity in mood swing may lead to impairment in normal social and occupational functioning. Quality of life is lower in patients' with bipolar disorder than in the general population. Poor quality of life is associated with the length of illness and lack of social support. This study was aimed at assessing the prevalence of quality of life and associated factors among people with bipolar disorder in Emanuel

Pharmacotherapeutic interventions for bipolar disorder type II: addressing multiple symptoms and approaches with a particular emphasis on strategies in lower and middle-income countries

“…This is a concern with a positive relationship seen between increasing urbanization and increasing number of suicides [88]. Prevalence rates for BD vary across countries with an estimated prevalence of more than 1% of the world's population [69,89,90] up to 5% [69,83,[91][92][93][94][95][96]. In their recent review, Clemente et al (2015) estimated that the pooled 1-year prevalence of BP-I was 0.71% (95%CI 0.56-0.86) principally among higher-income countries and 0.50% (95%CI 0.35-0.64) for BP-II [83].…”

“…A considerable proportion of BD patients, even in clinical remission, also live with significant functional impairment as seen by high DALY rates [82,96,[116][117][118], with often poor quality of life among patients with BD [92,119].…”