Publication date: Jul 07, 2025
Cognitive performance is known to influence the functional level of psychiatric disorders in both the short and long term. This study aims to examine disability, social cognition, and the clinical and sociodemographic variables affecting both in individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD) during the euthymic phase. This cross-sectional study included 62 euthymic patients diagnosed with BD who attended the Mood Disorders Outpatient Clinic of the Psychiatry Department and agreed to participate. Data collection involved a sociodemographic information form, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) and the Basic Empathy Scale (BES) to assess social cognition, and the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2. 0 (WHODAS-2) to evaluate disability. A significant positive correlation was identified between RMET scores and educational level (r = 0. 320, p
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| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Euthymic | Bipolar disorder |
| Outpatient | Disability |
| Psychiatric | Social cognition |
| Sociodemographic | Theory of mind |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | bipolar disorder |
| disease | MESH | psychiatric disorders |
| disease | MESH | Mood Disorders |
| disease | MESH | educational level |
| pathway | REACTOME | Reproduction |
| disease | MESH | suicide |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Coenzyme M |