ANALYSIS OF QUALITY PSYCHIATRIC CARE IN BIPOLAR DISORDER PATIENTS WITH MANIC EPISODES

Jieqiong Wang, Ying Wang^*

Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Kangning Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325000, China

Objective: This paper aims to investigate the effects of quality psychiatric care on cognitive function, medication compliance, and mania in patients with bipolar disorder manic episodes. 

Methods: A total of 100 patients with bipolar disorder manic episodes admitted to our hospital from December 1, 2018 to November 30, 2020 were selected for this study. The patients were divided into 50 cases in the observation and control groups each, using the random number table method. Conventional care was provided in the control group, and psychiatric quality care was provided in the observation group on the basis of conventional care. Besides, cognitive function (using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-RC) and the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)), medication adherence, and mania (using the Bech-Rafaelsdn Mania Rating Scale (BRMS)) were compared between the two groups before and after the intervention. 

Results: After the intervention, operational IQ and IQ scores in the WAIS-RC as well as long-term memory, short-term memory, and memory quotient scores in the WMS were higher in the observation group than in the control group (p<0.05). Besides, following the intervention, medication adherence was higher in the observation group than in the control group (P<0.01). Furthermore, BRMS scores were higher in both groups after the intervention than before the intervention (P<0.01). In addition, they were higher in the observation group than in the control group (P<0.01). 

Conclusion: Providing patients with bipolar disorder manic episodes with psychiatric quality care can effectively improve their cognitive function, increase their medication compliance, and reduce their mania scores, being worthy of clinical promotion.