A systematic review of the evidence of the burden of bipolar disorder in Europe

Fajutrao, Liberty; Locklear, Julie; Priaulx, Jennifer; Heyes, Anne

doi:10.1186/1745-0179-5-3

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Table 1 Studies included in the systematic review

From: A systematic review of the evidence of the burden of bipolar disorder in Europe

Study	Country	Type of study	Study population	Sample size
Jacobi et al 2004 [15]	Germany	Prevalence survey	General	4181
Faravelli et al 2006 [16]	Italy	Prevalence survey	General	2363
Kennedy et al 2005 [17]	UK	Incidence survey	General	120,000
Kennedy et al 2004 [18]	UK	Incidence survey	General	120,000
Kennedy et al 2005 [19]	UK	Incidence survey	General	120,000
Lloyd et al 2005 [20]	UK	Incidence survey	General	1,631,462
Proctor et al 2004 [21]	UK	Incidence survey	General	249,203
Benedetti et al 2007 [22]	Italy	Cohort	BPI	72
Dutta et al 2007 [23]	UK	Cohort	BPI	120,000
Daban et al 2006 [24]	Spain	Cohort	BPI and BPII out-patients	300
Dittmann et al 2002 [25]	Germany	Cohort	Bipolar disorder [BPI, BPII, NOS] or schizoaffective disorder [bipolar type]	152
Brieger et al 2007 [26]	Germany	Cross-sectional	BPI inpatients	121
Henry et al 2003 [27]	France	Cross-sectional	Bipolar disorder	318
Schiavone et al 2004 [28]	Italy	Cross-sectional	Unipolar and bipolar disorder in-patients	300
Vieta et al 2001 [29]	Spain	Cross-sectional	Remitted BPI out-patients	129
Pini et al 2003 [30]	Italy	Cross-sectional	BPI in-patients	151
Benazzi 2006 [31]	Italy	Cross-sectional	BPII	374
Benazzi 2003 [32]	Italy	Cross-sectional	Unipolar and BPII outpatients presenting for major depressive episode	313
Benazzi 2004 [33]	Italy	Cross-sectional	BPII and unipolar MDD patients	73
Benazzi 2003 [34]	Italy	Cross-sectional	Depressive mixed state	433
Baca-Garcia et al 2007 [35]	UK	Cohort	Bipolar affective disorder adults	1153
Das Gupta & Guest 2002 [36]	UK	Prevalence-based cost study	Bipolar disorder	297,000
Finnern et al 2003 [37]	UK	Retrospective chart review	BPI and BPII	134
Zelicourt et al, 2003 [38]	France	Prevalence-based cost study	BPI	390,000
Olie & Levy 2002 [39]	France	Retrospective chart review	Hospitalization following manic episodes	137

BPI, bipolar I disorder; BPII, bipolar II disorder; MDD, major depressive disorder; NOS, not otherwise specified

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