NCT01028196

Observational Study to Evaluate Bipolar Disorder Symptoms in Patients Presented With Schizophrenia or Depression

Epidemiological Observational Non-interventional Study to Research the Prevalence of Bipolar Criteria of Hospital In-patients With Schizophrenia and Patients With Recurrent Depression

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 750 (actual)
• Sponsor: AstraZeneca · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is aimed to evaluate the bipolar disorder symptoms in patients presented with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or recurrent depression. Bipolar disorder is a group of mood disorders characterised by elevated or irritable mood episodes in patient's lifetime history accompanied by some additional symptoms. In this study modern bipolar disorders screening/assessment instruments will be used to explore the prevalence of bipolarity symptoms in patients who never been diagnosed with bipolar disorders. The results of this study could be useful for more accurate assessment of bipolar disorders prevalence in psychiatric patient population, could help to improve the diagnostics of bipolar disorders and management of bipolar patients.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Schizoaffective Disorder
• Recurrent Depression

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-11-01
• Primary completion: 2010-11-01
• Completion: 2010-11-01
• First posted: 2009-12-09
• Last updated: 2011-11-01

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Russia