ABSTRACT:
Background: Mood refers to the internal emotional state of an individual also pervasive and sustained emotion that in the extreme markedly colors one s perception of the world affect refers to the external expression of emotional contents. Affect and emotion are commonly used interchangeably.
Objectives (Aims): To define the most important data that are correlated to the recurrence of mood disorders in a sample of Iraqi patients and to compare the finding of our study with that carried out in other cultures.
Methods: This is a cohort study that enrolled fifty patients with all the patients had at least four affective episodes half of the have unipolar depression and the other half has bipolar disorder. The sample was chosen from both the outpatient and inpatient in psychiatric unit at Al-Diwaniayh Teaching Hospital during period between 1, Feb, 2012 1, Feb, 2013 .For each patient clinical interview was done by the researcher a reliable close contract informant was also interrogated according to National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (NIMH).
Result: This study revealed the following results:
No significant difference between males and females regarding the level of education. The relationship between state of employment and sex of patient is statistically significant also the relationship between sex of patient and marital status is statistically significant. 50% of patients had bipolar affective disorder (BAD), and other 50% had unipolar affective disorder (UAD). Studying the life events which may act as precipitating factor in the initiation of affective episodes within one month prior to the onset.
Conclusion: This study proved that consistency of the clinical picture throughout the course of the affective disorder (i.e. exclusively recurrent manic or exclusively depressive episodes). It was found that 66% of patients had constant clinical picture, 75% of these parents were females suffering from depressive episode changeable clinical picture was more in males (45.45%) than in female patients (25%).
The result of his study were compared to others and found to be relatively comparable
NOTES: BAD: Bipolar Affective Disorder.
UAD: Unipolar affective Disorder.