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EPA-1729 – Pychoeducation in Bipolar Patients: Does it Help Preventing Hospitalization? a Review of the Program Done in a Portuguese Psychiatric Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

M. Nascimento
Affiliation:
Affective disorders and OCD, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
M. Azevedo
Affiliation:
Affective disorders and OCD, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
F. Gomes
Affiliation:
SETA, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
F. Bacelar
Affiliation:
Affective disorders and OCD, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
A. Ramos
Affiliation:
Affective disorders and OCD, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
A. Nobre
Affiliation:
Affective disorders and OCD, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Abstract

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Introduction

in bipolar disorder, psychoeducation has already been shown as a helpful tool to make patients more aware of their disorder and helping them to develop skills towards prevention and early intervention, therefore preventing relapses requiring hospitalization.

Objectives

to understand if our psychoeducation program helped to prevent new hospitalizations.

Methods

analysis of the medical records of all patients who had gone and concluded the program, from 2008 to 2012, measuring new admissions and which type of decompensations they had upon their hospitalizations, prior and after undergoing the program.

Results

57 patients attended the program (48 female, 9 male); average age of 42.7 years old; 41 of them had already had one prior episode requiring hospitalization (70.23% with mania, 19.08% with depression, and 10.69% with a mixed episode). After psychoeducation, none of the patients who had never been hospitalized was admitted; 29.27% of the previously hospitalized (21.05% of the total) required one or more (62.50% with mania, 18.75% with depression, and 18.75% with a mixed episode). Only one new admission was needed to 75% of these patients. 25% of the re-admissions occurred in the same year of the program, all of them related to suspension of the medication.

Conclusions

our results converge with other publications. Psychoeducation does, indeed, seem to be a helpful way to prevent hospitalization, integrated in an individualized therapeutic plan. More efforts must be put to not only to accept more patients, but also to prevent new decompensations, possibly by starting the program right during the patient's hospitalization.

Type
E08 - e-Poster Oral Session 08: Schizophrenia, Affective disorders, Addiction
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2014
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