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Bipolar disorder is a complex illness, and an accurate, thorough diagnosis can only be made through a personal evaluation by your doctor. Adapted from Hirschfeld R, Williams J, Spitzer RL, et al. Development and validation of a screening instrument for bipolar spectrum disorder: the Mood Disorder Questionnaire.
The MDQ is best at screening for bipolar I (depression and mania) disorder and is not as sensitive to bipolar II (depression and hypomania) or bipolar not otherwise specified (NOS) disorder.
This is a clinician administered screening tool: n The CIDI-based screening scale is capable of identifying both threshold and sub-threshold bipolar disorder with good accuracy. n The scale detected between 67-96% of true cases. n This compares very favorably with the widely-used MDQ screening scale for bipolar disorder,
Screening for Bipolar Spectrum Disorders. The items below refer to how you have felt and behaved over much of your life. If you have usually been one way, and have recently changed, your responses should reflect how you have USUALLY been.
Screening scales for DSM-IV bipolar disorder (BPD) were developed from version 3.0 of the WHO Compositive International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI 3.0) 1 based on secondary analysis of symptom-level data collected in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication
• The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) is a valid and reliable screening tool that may be used to help determine whether patients are experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder.1. • Patients who screen positive may benefit from a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation. Scoring the MDQ for Bipolar Disorder1.
The Mood Disorder Questionnaire is a brief, self-report screening instrument that can be used to identify patients most likely to have bi-polar disorder. Once identified, and subsequently appropriately diagnosed, the lives of those with bipolar disorder may be considerably improved. (Primary Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 2002;4:9–11)