Treatment Clinical Practice in Bipolar Depression in Spain (EPIDEP)

AstraZeneca

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bipolar Depression

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT00757328

NIS-NES-DUM-2008/3

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cross-sectional observational, non interventional, multicenter study of retrospective review of clinical records of ambulatory followed up bipolar patients in order to record epidemiological aspects of the course of the disorder, more specifically of bipolar depression episodes and the clinical practices carried out by psychiatrists in Spain in bipolar depressive episodes

Enrollment: 378 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed of Bipolar Disorder I or II (DSM-IV-TR) in ambulatory follow-up
• Evolution of the bipolar diagnoses inferior to 10 years
• Having recorded in the patient's clinical history the clinical management of at least two bipolar depressive episodes

Exclusion criteria

• Not having enough information recorded in the clinical history for the essential measurement variables
• To have taken part in other study in the last 6 months

Trial design

378 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

Ambulatory bipolar I and II patients, clinically stabilized for at least the two months prior to recruitment and who had at least one acute episode (depressive, manic, hypomanic or mixed) within the year prior to recruitment.