title: Inpatients with bipolar disorder: their quest to understand.
abstract: 1. The quest to understand how to live with the recurrent, major mental illness of bipolar disease is a pursuit not to be undertaken lightly. 2. Studies related to informational search in any clinical population, medical or psychiatric, are scant. 3. Individual and group work with this population needs to include discussion of how to obtain self-management information when out of the hospital, potential barriers that may be encountered in the pursuit of such information, and adaptive and maladaptive responses to barriers.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 77030, USA.
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Pollack
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012648:Self Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires