Measuring the consequences of a bipolar or unipolar mood disorder and the immediate and ongoing impacts.

Mood disorders are known to lead to significant impairment and disability and impact on quality of life and life satisfaction (Calabrese et al., 2003; Greenberg et al., 2015). Many measures have been developed to capture and quantify those constructs, with the most widely used scales including the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) within DSM-IV, and the World Health Organisation Health and Work Performance Scale (Kessler et al., 2003). These have a secondary objective of allowing economic analyses to be undertaken.
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