The mood disorder questionnaire improves recognition of bipolar disorder in psychiatric care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated our translation of The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) as a screening instrument for bipolar disorder in a psychiatric setting in Finland.

Methods

In a pilot study for the Jorvi Bipolar Study (JoBS), 109 consecutive non-schizophrenic psychiatric out- and inpatients in Espoo, Finland, were screened for bipolar disorder using the Finnish translation of the MDQ, and 38 of them diagnostically interviewed with the SCID.

Results

Forty subjects (37%) were positive in the MDQ screen. In the SCID interview, twenty patients were found to suffer from bipolar disorder, of whom seven (70%) of ten patients with bipolar I but only two (20%) of ten with bipolar II disorder had been previously clinically correctly diagnosed. The translated MDQ was found in

SUBMITTER: Isometsa E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC169168 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature