BACKGROUND Women with bipolar disorder have a high risk of relapse following childbirth. The risk of relapse can be reduced by mood stabilisers, but they are potentially harmful to the developing fetus. OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to provide an up-to-date review of the strategies for managing women with bipolar disorder over the perinatal period. DISCUSSION Discussing the ris...

In 50 patients with chronic bronchitis the relation was assessed between exercise tolerance and pulmonary function and psychological factors, including subjective perception of exertion, mood, general psychiatric disturbance, and the attitudes and beliefs held by patients concerning themselves, their illness, and its treatment. Ventilatory capacity was significantly correlated with but a poor p...

Human behavior is impacted by emotion, mood, personality, needs and subjective well-being. Emotion and mood are human affective states while personality, needs and subjective well-being are influences on those affective states. Ontologies are a method of representing real-world knowledge, such as human affective states and their influences, in a format that a computer can process. They allow re...

The main goal of this research is to study the relationships between physical activity, mood states and self-rated health in Spanish lockdown (March 2020–April 2020) due state alarm caused by COVID-19. participants were 328 people aged 19 59 years (M = 37.06; SD 10.82). Females comprised 63.70% participants, 36.30% male. An associative, comparative predictive design was used research. Internati...

An "affective" go/no-go task was used in the different episodes of bipolar patients (euthymic, depressed, and manic) to examine (1) the presence of a mood-congruent attentional bias; and (2) the patients' ability to inhibit and invert associations between stimuli and responses through blocks. A group of healthy individuals served as controls. Results revealed a mood-congruent attentional bias: ...

Mood tracking is commonly employed within a range of mental health interventions. Physical activity and sleep are also important for contextualizing mood data but can be difficult to track manually rely on retrospective recall. Smartwatches could enhance self-monitoring by addressing difficulties in recall physical reducing the burden patients terms remembering effort tracking. This feasibility...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the suitability of the Chinese version of the Hypomania Symptom Checklist (HCL-32) scale for psychiatric department outpatients with mood disorders in Chinese general hospitals, and provide a theoretical basis for the application of the HCL-32 scale. METHODS Outpatients with mood disorders receiving continuous treatment in the psychiatric medicine depa...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to investigate the influence of emotional labor, emotional dissonance, and burnout on nurse's turnover intention and examine the effect of job satisfaction on the relationships among emotional labor, emotional dissonance, burnout, and turnover intention. METHODS The sample consisted of 350 nurses recruited from 6 general hospitals in 2 cities in Korea. A multi...