ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been developed as a self-reporting, brief, and easy-to-use screening instrument to improve identification of bipolar mood disorders. the goals of the present study were to examine the prevalence of this disorder and interrelationship of its symptoms by factor analysis of mdq in a group of pregnant women in ïran. methods: ône thousand and eigh...

ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been designed as a screening self-report inventory for diagnosing bipolar mood disorders. this study investigated the validity and the optimal cut-off threshold of the persian version of mdq in a group of ïranian depressive patients. methods: ône hundred and twenty patients with probable diagnosis of mood disorders attending psychiatric clini...

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorders are often not recognized and undertreated. The diagnosis of current or past episodes of hypomania is of importance in order to increase diagnostic certainty. The Hypomania Checklist-32 is a self-applied questionnaire aimed at recognizing these episodes. As part of the international collaborative effort to develop multi-lingual versions of the Hypomania Checklist-32, ...

aim and background: mood disorders are a significant group of psychiatric disorders. bipolar spectrum disorders are mood disorders that usually remain unrecognized and subsequently undertreated. one of the most useful screening instruments for underdiagnosed bipolar disorders is the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq). this paper presented the persian version and psychometric properties of mdq fo...

Bipolar disorder (BD) is one of the most difficult to diagnose among all psychiatric disorders. BD is often misdiagnosed as recurrent depressive disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety or personality disorders. In 40% of patients BD is not detected at the first examination and in 2/3 of cases the proper diagnosis is made after about 10 years. The consequence of this condition is inadequate treatment l...

BACKGROUND Considering the difficulties in diagnosing bipolar disorder in clinical practice and lack of needed screening instruments in Persian language, the present study aimed at assessing sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values for the Persian Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale. METHODS The study was conducted in a university-affiliated hospital in Tehran, Iran, in a sample of 181 c...