TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Bipolar Disorder Patients Follow-up (BDPF): methods and materials
JO  - Journal of research in medical sciences
A1  - Shabani, Amir
A1  - Taheri, Aida
A1  - Azadforouz, Sanaz
A1  - Abbasi, Chehreh Najd
A1  - Mousavi, Zahra
A1  - Zangeneh, Kambiz
A1  - Shariat, Seyed Vahid
A1  - Nohesara, Shabnam
A1  - Naserbakht, Morteza
A1  - Taban, Mojgan
A1  - Kokar, Sadaf
A1  - Teimoorinejad, Samaneh
A1  - Hakimshooshtary, Mitra
A1  - Shirazi, Elham
SP  - 229
EP  - 234
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
N2  - BACKGROUND: The Bipolar Disorder Patients Follow-up (BDPF) project is a longitudinal, prospective and naturalistic study. The purpose of the present report is to introduce the project, elaborate its methods, and present the reliability data of the utilized symptoms rating scales.  METHODS: The sampling started in May 2008 and is still in progress. The probands are assessed at the beginning of the sampling and then 2 and 6 months later and then every 6 months using several instruments to identify psychiatric comorbidities, symptoms severity, quality of life, attempted suicide rate, treatment compliance, and some other factors.  RESULTS: The results could lead to increase the clinicians' awareness about the clinical picture of this disorder in Iranian patients.  CONCLUSIONS: The present project could decrease to some extent the current shortcomings in Iran's psychiatric data at least about one of the major psychiatric disorders known as the eighth result which cause medical disability over the world.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1735-1995
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -