Psychosocial characteristics of rehospitalization among bipolar affective disorder patients

Pages: 1434-1438
Bhupendra Singh (Psychiatric Social Worker, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS, Rohtak)
A.N. Verma (Department of Psychiatric Social Work, RINPAS, Kanke, Ranchi)
Amool R.Singh (Department of Clinical Psychology, RINPAS, Kanke, Ranchi)

Bipolar affective disorder tends to occur in episodes lasting 3-4 months, followed by complete clinical recovery. Future episode can be manic, depressive or mixed. Relapse is very common in bipolar affective disorder, level of social support reduces with the frequent relapses and expressed emotion took place in the negative form and become hurdle in readjustment of patients. 100 bipolar affective disorders with at least one hospitalization and their primary care givers were recruited from RINPAS OPD. People with more than one hospitalization get poor support from caregivers and they face high negative expressed emotion. Frequent relapse reduce the level of social support and increased the expressed emotion.