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Assessment of Clinical Parameters in Female Patients with Bipolar Disorder According to Postpartum-Onset

Year 2021, , 266 - 269, 20.09.2021
https://doi.org/10.54005/geneltip.996807

Abstract

Objective: Despite diverse clinical presentations, there is strong evidence from clinical and genetic studies that episodes of postpartum psychosis are presentations of bipolar disorder. The present study was aimed to compare the clinical characteristics of patients with bipolar disorder who had postpartum-onset and patients with bipolar disorder who had at least one delivery and did not experience an episode in the postpartum period.

Materials and Methods: The study was carried out among patients with bipolar disorder who were followed up at Bakırköy Hospital for Mental and Neurological Diseases and Selcuk University Faculty of Medicine. Patients whose first symptoms were within six week period of time after delivery were checked from databases and 30 patients who accepted the study were selected consecutively to compose the first group. To compose the second group, 30 female patients who had at least one delivery and didn’t have an episode in postpartum period were included in study by matching the age of the first group.

Results: The mean age of the sample was 38.77±9.58 years. There was no statistical difference between the two groups in terms of the number of pregnancies. The rate of psychotic symptoms in the postpartum-onset group was 33.3%(n=10), while this rate was 10%(n=3) in the other group, and the difference was significant (x2=4.812, p=0.028). Although the onset-age of disease was not statistically significant, the type-1 error rate was close to the threshold level (p=0.074), and the mean onset-age of disease was approximately 3.5 years earlier in the group with postpartum-onset.

Conclusion: This study provides helpful information as the first research to assess the clinical characteristics of bipolar disorder with postpartum-onset despite its small sample. More reliable results can be obtained regarding the importance of the postpartum-onset history in studies with larger samples.

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Postpartum Başlangıç Olup Olmamasına Göre Bipolar Bozukluk Tanılı Kadın Hastaların Klinik Parametrelerinin Değerlendirilmesi

Year 2021, , 266 - 269, 20.09.2021
https://doi.org/10.54005/geneltip.996807

Abstract

Amaç: Farklı klinik sunumlara rağmen, postpartum psikoz ataklarının psikolojik ve fizyolojik değişim sırasında meydana gelen bipolar bozukluğun sunumları olduğuna dair klinik ve genetik çalışmalardan gelen güçlü kanıtlar vardır. Bu çalışmada postpartum başlangıç gösteren bipolar bozukluk tanılı hastalar ile en az bir doğum yapmış ve postpartum süreçte dönem yaşamamış olan bipolar bozukluk tanılı hastaların klinik özelliklerinin karşılaştırılması amaçlanmıştır.

Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışma Bakırköy Ruh ve Sinir Hastalıkları Hastanesi ve Selçuk Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Duygudurum Merkezlerinde bipolar bozukluk tanısı ile takip edilen hastalar ile yürütülmüştür. İlk hastalık belirtileri postpartum sürecin ilk 6 haftası içinde olan hastalar veri tabanlarından kontrol edilmiş ve bu hastalardan ulaşılabilen ve çalışmayı kabul eden 30 hasta çalışmanın ilk grubunu oluşturmak için ardışık olarak alınmıştır. İkinci grubu oluşturmak için en az bir doğum yapmış ve postpartum döneminde epizodu olmayan 30 kadın hasta ilk grubun yaşı ile birebir eşleştirilerek çalışmaya alınmıştır.

Bulgular: Örneklemin ortalama yaşı 38,77±9,58 yıldı. Her iki grup arasında gebelik sayısı açısından istatiksel fark yoktu. Postpartum başlangıçlı grubunun ilk epizodunda psikotik bulguların olma oranı %33,3 (n=10) iken diğer grupta bu oran %10 (n=3) idi ve aradaki fark anlamlıydı (x2=4,812, p=0,028). Hastaların hastalık başlangıç yaşı istatiksel olarak anlamlı çıkmasa da tip-1 hata oranı eşik düzeye yakındı (p=0,074) ve hastalık başlangıç yaşı ortalaması postpartum başlangıç gösteren grupta yaklaşık 3,5 yıl daha erkendi.

Sonuç: Bu çalışma küçük örneklemine rağmen postpartum başlangıç ile bipolar bozukluğun klinik özelliklerini değerlendiren ilk çalışma olması açısından değerli bilgiler sunmaktadır. Daha büyük örneklemli araştırmalarda postpartum başlangıç öyküsünün önemine ilişkin daha güçlü sonuçlar elde edilebilir.

References

  • Merikangas KR, Jin R, He JP, et al. Prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in the world mental health survey initiative. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2011;68:241–251.
  • Diflorio A, Jones I. Is sex important? Gender differences in bipolar disorder. Int Rev Psychiatry 2010;22:437–452.
  • Munk-Olsen T, Laursen TM, Meltzer-Brody S, Mortensen PB, Jones I. Psychiatric disorders with postpartum onset: possible early manifestations of bipolar affective disorders. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2012;69:428-434.
  • Terp IM, Mortensen PB. Post-partum psychoses. Clinical diagnoses and relative risk of admission after parturition. Br J Psychiatry 1998;172:521-526.
  • Harlow BL, Vitonis AF, Sparen P, et al. Incidence of hospitalization for postpartum psychotic and bipolar episodes in women with and without prior prepregnancy or prenatal psychiatric hospitalizations. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2007;64:42-48.
  • Jones I, Craddock N. Familiality of the puerperal trigger in bipolar disorder: results of a family study. Am J Psychiatry 2001;158:913-917.
  • Chaudron LH, Pies RW: The relationship between postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder: a review. J Clin Psychiatry 2003; 64:1284–1292.
  • Jones I, Chandra PS, Dazzan P, Howard LM. Bipolar disorder, affective psychosis, and schizophrenia in pregnancy and the post-partum period. Lancet 2014;384:1789-1799.
  • O’Donovan MC. What have we learned from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. World Psychiatry 2015;14:291-293.
  • Karadağ F, Oral ET, Yalçın FA, Erten E. Young Mani Derecelendirme Ölçeğinin Türkiye’de geçerlik ve güvenilirliği. Turk Psikiyatr Derg 2002;13:107-14.
  • Akdemir A, Dönbak SÖ, Dağ İ ve ark. Hamilton Depresyon Derecelendirme Ölçeği (HDDÖ)’nin geçerliliği, güvenilirliği ve klinikte kullanımı. Psikiyatri Psikoloji Psikofarmakoloji Dergisi: 3P 1996;4: 251-9.
  • Geoffroy PA, Etain B, Scott J, et al. Reconsideration of bipolar disorder as a developmental disorder: Importance of the time of onset. J Physiol Paris. 2013;107:278-285.
  • Bellivier F, Etain B, Malafosse A, et al. Age at onset in bipolar I affective disorder in the USA and Europe. World J Biol Psychiatry 2014;15:369-76.
  • Altınbaş K. Duygudurum Bozuklukları Tanı ve Tedavisi. 1st ed. Konya: Bahçıvanlar Basım, 2020:1-13.
  • Dagani J, Baldessarini RJ, Signorini G, et al. The age of onset of bipolar disorders. In de Girolamo G, McGorry PD, Sartorius N, editors, Age of onset of mental disorders: etiopathogenetic and treatment implications. Cham: Springer, Springer Nature. 2019: 75-110.
  • Conus P, McGorry PD. First-episode mania: a neglected priority for early intervention. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2002;36:158-72.
  • Carlson GA. Affective Disorders and Psychosis in Youth. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 2013;22:569-80.
  • McClellan J, Kowatch R, Findling RL; Work Group on Quality Issues. Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2007;46:107-25.
  • Canuso CM, Bossie CA, Zhu Y, Youssef E, Dunner DL. Psychotic symptoms in patients with bipolar mania. J Affect Disord 2008;111:164-169.
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Clinical Sciences
Journal Section Original Article
Authors

Bahri İnce This is me

Kürşat Altınbaş This is me

Publication Date September 20, 2021
Submission Date February 13, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021

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Vancouver İnce B, Altınbaş K. Postpartum Başlangıç Olup Olmamasına Göre Bipolar Bozukluk Tanılı Kadın Hastaların Klinik Parametrelerinin Değerlendirilmesi. Genel Tıp Derg. 2021;31(3):266-9.