Control charts for monitoring mood stability as a predictor of severe episodes in patients with bipolar disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recurrent mood episodes and subsyndromal mood instability cause substantial disability in patients with bipolar disorder. Early identification of mood episodes enabling timely mood stabilization is an important clinical goal. This study investigates the ability of control chart methodology to predict manic and/or depressive episodes by applying Shewhart's control rules to weekly self-reported scores from mania and depression questionnaires.

Methods

Shewhart's control rules were applied to weekly self-reported scores from the Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale (ASRM) and the Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self-Report (QIDS) collected from 2001 to 2012 as part of the OXTEXT programme. Manic and depressive episodes were defined as an ASRM score ≥ 10 or a QI

SUBMITTER: Vazquez-Montes MDLA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6161980 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature