The Mood Disorder Questionnaire improves recognition of bipolar disorder in psychiatric care
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The Mood Disorder Questionnaire improves recognition of bipolar disorder in psychiatric care
BACKGROUND We investigated our translation of The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) as a screening instrument for bipolar disorder in a psychiatric setting in Finland. METHODS In a pilot study for the Jorvi Bipolar Study (JoBS), 109 consecutive non-schizophrenic psychiatric out- and inpatients in Espoo, Finland, were screened for bipolar disorder using the Finnish translation of the MDQ, and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244x-3-8