Group psychoeducation for patients with bipolar disorder: a retrospective study on effectiveness in delaying relapse episodes and intensity.

Introduction: Group psychoeducation is effective in preventing relapse in bipolar disorder. It's indicated as an adjunctive intervention to pharmacotherapy for all outpatients. This retrospective, single center experience of group psychoeducation for bipolar disorder over a 6 years period, aims to assess severity of symptoms and comparative relapse episodes and intensity prior to and following psychoeducation as well as evaluating the decrease in hospitalizations and days of hospitalization.