Abstract

The present report pretends to evaluate the impact of the application of a psychoeducation model in bipolar patients where the presence of a tutor in incorporated. The protocol consists in the abbreviated version of the bipolar syndrome program of the Clinic Hospital, Barcelona which considers eight sessions with a weekly frequency. Aleatorily, two groups where formed from the University Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Chile. In one group (group 1) the traditional program is applied in the other group (group II ) the tutor in incorporated to the sessions, and who participates during the whole process. Both groups were un by type I bipolar patients. Both the patients from group I and group II maintain eutimic scores at the end of the eight sessions. The application of the Moorfhead-Ardelt test in group I shows an average of + 0.479 which suggests that the group of subjects manifested a better impression of their actual state after the end of the session, while the subjects in group II (with tutor) showed an average of + 0.666 which signals a better appreciation of their state at the end of the sessions compared to group I. In regard to OQ-45.2, the group I showed favorable results, with six subjects from twelve with significant statistical scores ( p<0.05). en group II, four from nine subjects presented significant statistical scores for positive change at the end of the sessions, which in average is slightly superior to the group I scours. There were no significant statistical negative scores observed in either group. In the five month monitoring, the group with a tutor shoed a better evolution, seven out of nine patients were eutimic, while in the group without a tutor just five out twelve maintained in these clinical conditions, which signal a better functioning of the group which incorporated a tutor to the psychoeducational sessions.