Occupational Stress and Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

Assessment of Occupational Stress and Well-being in French Patients Suffering From Bipolar Disorder

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03162380
• Other study ID #: RECHMPL17_0138
• Status: Completed
• Start date: May 22, 2017
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: September 2018
• Source: University Hospital, Montpellier
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder characterized by alternance of depressive and manic phases, separated by intercritical phases (euthymia). The majority of patients report occupation and professional difficulties. Sixty percent of bipolar patients are inactive . Indeed, according to the World Health Organisation, bipolar disorder is the second cause of days not worked.

Several factors are related to the lower professional functioning observed in bipolar patients: early age of onset, delay of diagnosis and treatment, recurrence of thymic episodes, residual symptoms and cognitive disorders during euthymia, side effects of mood stabilizers.

To our knowledge, no study has ever focused on well-being at work in French patients. However, suffering from a psychiatric disorder and the lack of support from colleagues and the hierarchy are risk factors for burnout, a growing health issue.

Patients with mental illness are often victims of stigmatization, which may involve the professional field. In addition, thymic recurrences may alter professional functioning of active patients: multiplication of work disruptions, conflicts with peers. Conversely work can be stressful, promoting thyic relapses. It is therefore essential to better understand the occupational stresses of active patients suffering from bipolar disorder in order to promote functional remission beyond clinical remission.

The aim of this study is to assess the level of stress and well-being at work in active French bipolar patients.

Description:

Socio-demographic, psychiatric and occupational data of 200 bipolar patients will be collected over a period of 6 months.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: May 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• out patients and inpatients in the Department of Emergency Psychiatry and Post Acute Care, CHU Montpellier, France

• to have completed the self-administered questionnaire on professional activity.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Deprived of liberty subject (by judicial or administrative decision)

• Protected by law (guardianship)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bipolar Disorder
• Disease

Intervention

Other:
• Date collection
Date collection

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Uhmontpellier	Montpellier

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Montpellier

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Level of occupational stress using a Likert scale	level of occupational stress assessed at the patient visit will be collected, from 0 (none) to 10 (maximum possible occupational stress).	1 day
Secondary	Presenteism during the last month using the Stanford Presenteeism Scale	Presenteism during the last month assessed at the patient visit will be collected	1 day
Secondary	Support of colleagues and superiors using the Karasek questionnaire.	Support of colleagues and superiors assessed at the patient visit will be collected	1 day
Secondary	Impact of work on the private sphere using the SWING scale (survey work-home interaction-Nijmegen)	Impact of work on the private sphere assessed at the patient visit will be collected	1 day
Secondary	Balance effort - reward in using the Siegrist questionaire	Balance effort - reward assessed at the patient visit will be collected	1 day