Depressed patients with dysfunctional families: description and course of illness

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to replicate and expand research concerning depression and its relation to dysfunctional families. The study had 93 subjects who were admitted into a university-affiliated hospital for clinical depression. The results are three-fold. First, validation of the method of classifying dysfunctional families has begun; second, depressed patients with dysfunctional families are not significantly related to those who have functional families; lastly, those with dysfunctional families took longer to heal.

Depression, Mental, Depression (Mood disorder), Problem families, Dysfunctional families

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Family functioning in bipolar I disorder

Article Abstract:

A repeated measures longitudinal design was used to examine whether global family functioning was associated with the presence of a concurrent bipolar episode as well as whether global family functioning was associated with the presence of maniac depressive episodes in following 3 months. The results suggest that global family functioning and bipolar episodes may fluctuate in concert with each other but that global family is not associated with subsequent changes in episode status.

Influence, Bipolar disorder, Family life, Mixed manic episode

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