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Validation of the hypomania interview guide-seasonal affective disorder (HIGH-SAD) version in patients with rapid cycling bipolar disorder
✍ Scribed by Susana Feldman-Naim; Catherine H. Lowe; Frances S. Myers; Erick H. Turner; Lauren M. Weinstock; Ellen Leibenluft
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 45 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
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✦ Synopsis
We validated the Hypomania Interview Guide-Seasonal Affective Disorder version (HIGH-SAD) in patients with rapid cycling bipolar disorder (RCBD). Fourteen outpatients were rated on six separate occasions (total= 84 visits). On each visit the patients were rated with the HIGH-SAD and the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) in a counterbalanced order. Clinical assessment was completed at the end of the visit by the treating psychiatrist. Patients were assessed as hypomanic/manic on 22 of the visits. Pearson correlation coefficient between the YMRS total scores and the HIGH-SAD total scores for those 22 visits in which patients were hypomanic/manic was r= 0.629 (P< 0.05) and for all visits was r= 0.769 (P<0.0001). Analysis with only one rating per patient yielded a Pearson correlation coefficient of r=0.792 (P<0.0004). We found that the HIGH-SAD was a valid scale for the measurement of hypomania in pa-
tients with RCBD. However, the scale does not differentiate hypomania from mania in this group of patients.