Group-based psychosocial intervention for bipolar disorder: randomised controlled trial
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- DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.108.058263
Group-based psychosocial intervention for bipolar disorder: randomised controlled trial
Abstract
Background: Psychosocial interventions have the potential to enhance relapse prevention in bipolar disorder.
Aims: To evaluate a manualised group-based intervention for people with bipolar disorder in a naturalistic setting.
Method: Eighty-four participants were randomised to receive the group-based intervention (a 12-week programme plus three booster sessions) or treatment as usual, and followed up with monthly telephone interviews (for 9 months post-intervention) and face-to-face interviews (at baseline, 3 months and 12 months).
Results: Participants who received the group-based intervention were significantly less likely to have a relapse of any type and spent less time unwell. There was a reduced rate of relapse in the treatment group for pooled relapses of any type (hazard ratio 0.43, 95% CI 0.20-0.95; t(343) = -2.09, P = 0.04).
Conclusions: This study suggests that the group-based intervention reduces relapse risk in bipolar disorder.
Comment in
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Group-based psychosocial intervention for bipolar disorder.Br J Psychiatry. 2010 Sep;197(3):246; author reply 246. doi: 10.1192/bjp.197.3.246. Br J Psychiatry. 2010. PMID: 20807972 No abstract available.
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Cognitive approaches to group therapy: prevention of relapse in major depressive and bipolar disorders.Int J Group Psychother. 2013 Apr;63(2):303-9. doi: 10.1521/ijgp.2013.63.2.303. Int J Group Psychother. 2013. PMID: 23544901 No abstract available.
