title: Quality of life of patients with euthymic bipolar disorder and its associations with demographic and clinical characteristics, psychopathology, and cognitive deficits.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Little is known about quality of life (QOL) in Chinese patients with bipolar disorder (BD) in remission (euthymia). This study examined the QOL of such a cohort of BD patients and its demographic, clinical, and cognitive correlates.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-seven euthymic BD patients and 47 matched healthy controls formed the study sample. Socio-demographic characteristics, prospective memory, retrospective memory, intelligence quotient, and executive functioning were measured in all participants together with patients’ psychopathology ratings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Multivariate analyses revealed that compared to controls, euthymic BD patients had significantly lower satisfaction with physical QOL domain. Only subthreshold depressive symptoms independently contributed to reduced satisfaction with physical and environmental QOL domains, whereas no variable predicted its psychological and social domains.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Contrary to findings from Western settings, demographic variables and cognitive deficits had no associations with any QOL domain in euthymic Chinese BD patients. Control of subthreshold depressive symptoms in euthymic BD patients might enhance their QOL.
authors.forename: Yu-Tao
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.forename: Li-Jun
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jing-Jing
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Chuan-Yue
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Lisa B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.forename: Faith
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dickerson
authors.forename: Fu-Chun
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Gabor S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Ungvari
authors.forename: Xiang-Yang
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: David H K
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Shum
authors.forename: Raymond W C
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Au
authors.forename: Wai-Kwong
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Man
authors.forename: Helen F K
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Chiu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*