Quality of Life in Bipolar Type I Disorder in a One-Year Followup

Table 2

Comparison of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in terms of the WHOQOL-BREF domains scores at discharge, 4-, 8-, 12-month assessments.

Time/Domain	Bipolar disorder mean ± SD	Schizophrenia mean ± SD	𝐹	𝑃 value	𝑇	𝑃 value
Discharge/Domain			1.21	0.275
Physical	79.43 ± 16.79	72.02 ± 16.44			1.911	0.059
Psychological	69.58 ± 23.52	65.49 ± 20.46			0.931	0.354
Social	61.11 ± 23.89	61.22 ± 21.86			0.111	0.912
Environmental	62.19 ± 19.29	60.95 ± 16.72			0.386	0.700
4-month/Domain			0.58	0.450
Physical	64.96 ± 19.43	65.61 ± 19.91			−0.325	0.746
Psychological	52.70 ± 21.41	60.34 ± 19.59			−1.494	0.140
Social	54.73 ± 21.56	60.19 ± 24.50			−1.064	0.291
Environmental	57.30 ± 18.04	58.47 ± 19.61			−0.315	0.754
8-month/Domain			0.02	0.889
Physical	65.48 ± 22.03	64.47 ± 21.44			0.111	0.912
Psychological	59.72 ± 20.31	56.84 ± 21.52			0.410	0.684
Social	54.63 ± 21.40	60.53 ± 24.19			−0.848	0.400
Environmental	54.43 ± 21.36	59.61 ± 23.20			−0.875	0.386
12-month/Domain			1.01	0.321
Physical	51.84 ± 17.20	51.40 ± 17.88			0.148	0.883
Psychological	50.24 ± 15.49	51.09 ± 14.82			−0.269	0.789
Social	54.52 ± 27.22	53.99 ± 24.21			0.160	0.874
Environmental	57.38 ± 19.78	55.11 ± 21.62			0.413	0.681

*Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).
**Independent Student 𝑇-Test.