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Life events and mania: a case-controlled study
R T Joffe1, C MacDonald, S P Kutcher
1Department of Psychiatry, Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
Psychiatry Research
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
Life events were evaluated in 14 patients with bipolar affective disorder in the year preceding a mania as well as in 14 patients with bipolar affective disorder without a mania matched for age, sex, and time of recall. There were a significantly greater number of uncontrolled and unanticipated life events in the patients with as compared to those without a mania. However, neither the total number of life events nor measures of distress and stress distinguished bipolar patients with as compared to those without mania.