Clinical trial NCT03162380: Occupational Stress and Bipolar Disorder
Official title: Assessment of Occupational Stress and Well-being in French Patients Suffering From Bipolar Disorder
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Bipolar Disorder
Keywords: Bipolar Disorder
occupational stress
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-05-22
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients with Bipolar disorder

Brief 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.

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

Eligibility criteria: 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)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Level of occupational stress using a Likert scale
timeFrame: 1 day
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Presenteism during the last month using the Stanford Presenteeism Scale
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Support of colleagues and superiors using the Karasek questionnaire.
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Impact of work on the private sphere using the SWING scale (survey work-home interaction-Nijmegen)
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Balance effort - reward in using the Siegrist questionaire
timeFrame: 1 day
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Montpellier
country: France
facility: Uhmontpellier
Study officials:
affiliation: University Hospital, Montpellier
name: Emile OLIE, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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