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Quality of life in unipolar and bipolar depression: are there significant differences?

J Nerv Ment Dis

November 2004

Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and the Mood Disorders Program, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (PROTHUM-HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

In the present investigation, we compared the impact of illness on quality of life (QOL) in adult outpatients with unipolar (N = 89) and bipolar (N = 25) depression. While attending a university hospital in southern Brazil, patients completed the WHO's QOL Instrument-Short Version and the Beck Depression Inventory. After analyses, patients with bipolar depression reported significantly lower scores on the psychological QOL domain (p = .

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