title: Effects of resilience on quality of life in patients with bipolar disorder.
abstract: Few studies have examined the effects of resilience on quality of life (QOL) in patients with bipolar disorder (BD). Therefore, this study investigated the association between resilience and QOL in patients with BD and compared it to the relationship between resilience and QOL in healthy individuals.
  
  
  
  Participants were 68 euthymic patients with BD and 68 age-, sex-, and length of education-matched controls. Sociodemographic characteristics and clinical variables of the two groups were obtained using face-to-face interviews, and all participants completed the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the World Health Organization QOL-Brief Form.
  
  
  
  The QOL of the BD group was significantly impaired compared with that of the controls. Degree of resilience, number of depressive episodes, Clinical Global Impression scores, degree of impulsivity, and length of education were significantly correlated with QOL in the BD group. Resilience was significantly associated with overall QOL, physical subdomains of QOL, psychological subdomains of QOL, social subdomains of QOL, and environmental subdomains of QOL in the BD group, even after controlling for confounders. In the control group, resilience was significantly associated with overall QOL, the physical subdomains of QOL, psychological subdomains of QOL, and social subdomains of QOL.
  
  
  
  The number of participants in each group was 68, which is a relatively small sample size.
  
  
  
  Resilience in patients with BD was independently and positively correlated with various areas of QOL. Various strategies to reinforce resilience in patients with BD are needed to improve the low QOL in this population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Dongyun
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: cbs324@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Boseok
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cha
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Chul-Soo
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Bong-Jo
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Cheol-Soon
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: So-Jin
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ji-Yeong
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Research Institute, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Jinju, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Young Ah
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jong Hun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jae-Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Choi
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D055500:Resilience, Psychological
keywords: Bipolar disorder; Quality of life; Resilience