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Updateon Recent Research with the Hypomania Checklist HCL-32
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
The Hypomania Checklist HCL-32 (Angst et al. 2005) is still in development as a screening instrument for hypomania in depressed patients and as a research tool.
The original HCL-32 was slightly modified, omitting one tricky question on consequences (HCL-32 R1) and recently (HCL-32 R2) by adding two new symptoms (gambling and overeating). It is currently available in 27 languages.
New investigations include a Europe-wide GAMIAN study, individual studies in Brazil, Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, Korea, Taiwan and China, and the ongoing worldwide multicentre BRIDGE study.
1. new data have been collected on the re-test reliability in China and Sweden and correlations with the Mood Disorder Questionnaire in Brazil;
2. exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis re-confirmed a two-factor structure (elated/overactive vs. irritable/risk taking) of the self-assessed hypomanic syndrome, replicable in over 1500 subjects from the community and patients with mood disorders across all cultures so far analysed;
3. total item scores have repeatedly been shown to be independent of the current mood state (normal, low, high);
4. adolescents/young adults in love feel high, and score comparably to bipolar-II patients on the HCL-32 (Brand et al 2007);
5. 89% of bariatric patients were also found to be high scorers on the HCL-32 (Alciati et al. 2007);
6. studies with the HCL-32 in subjects with alcohol use disorders (AUD) (previously shown to be strongly associated with bipolarity) are ongoing.
Trans-cultural comparisons and evaluation of the questions on the consequences of hypomania for case-definition.
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- S22-03
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue S1: 17th EPA Congress - Lisbon, Portugal, January 2009, Abstract book , January 2009 , 24-E118
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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