Socio-economic Determinants of the Response to Treatment in Women with Bipolar Disorder

Abstract

The relationship between socio-economic status and mental illness is one of the issues that has long been considered by researchers, and bipolar disorder is no exception. Old and new studies in this field have contradictory results. Therefore, in this study, we examined the socio-economic status of women with bipolar disorder who are receiving outpatient treatment. materials and methods. After approval by the Regional Committee on Bioethics of Human Research, the objectives of the study were explained to the four participating groups who were selected according to the entry and exit criteria, and after obtaining informed consent, entered the study. The questionnaire to assess the socio-economic level of Dr. Sadeghi et al. (9) and the demographic information questionnaire were completed by a graduate student who had previously been fully trained by a consultant psychiatrist. Then they were classified into two groups based on their response to treatment. Data were compared in two groups after registration in SPSS software version 24. All statistical tests were performed at a significant level of 5%. Results. In the present study, 120 women with bipolar disorder participated, 50% of whom were in the age group of 40-50 years. The mean score of YMRS in these patients was 8.37 ± 4.62 and 74.2% of patients were in remission, although the age of the patients was significantly related to the YMRS score (P = 0.005, r = 0.254). Investigation of the relationship between variables related to family socio-economic status with YMRS score cannot reveal any significant relationship between these variables and YMRS score (P >0.05).