Title |
Collaborative care for patients with bipolar disorder: a randomised controlled trial
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Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, August 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-244x-11-133 |
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Authors |
Trijntje YG van der Voort, Berno van Meijel, Peter JJ Goossens, Janwillem Renes, Aartjan TF Beekman, Ralph W Kupka |
Abstract |
Bipolar disorder is a severe mental illness with serious consequences for daily living of patients and their caregivers. Care as usual primarily consists of pharmacotherapy and supportive treatment. However, a substantial number of patients show a suboptimal response to treatment and still suffer from frequent episodes, persistent interepisodic symptoms and poor social functioning. Both psychiatric and somatic comorbid disorders are frequent, especially personality disorders, substance abuse, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Multidisciplinary collaboration of professionals is needed to combine all expertise in order to achieve high-quality integrated treatment. 'Collaborative Care' is a treatment method that could meet these needs. Several studies have shown promising effects of these integrated treatment programs for patients with bipolar disorder. In this article we describe a research protocol concerning a study on the effects of Collaborative Care for patients with bipolar disorder in the Netherlands. |
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