Heterogeneity of psychosocial functioning in patients with bipolar disorder: Associations with sociodemographic, clinical, neurocognitive and biochemical variables

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aims to identify the functional heterogeneity in fully or partially remitted patients with bipolar disorder and explore the correlations between psychosocial functioning and sociodemographic, clinical, neurocognitive and biochemical variables.

Methods

One hundred and forty fully or partially remitted patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and seventy healthy controls were recruited. The patients were grouped into different profiles based on the Functioning Assessment Short Test (FAST) domain scores by hierarchical cluster analysis. The characteristics of subgroups and the correlations between psychosocial functioning and sociodemographic, clinical, neurocognitive and biochemical variables in each cluster were then analyzed.

Results

There were th

SUBMITTER: Ba Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9530893 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature