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Patient-voice sources

Last curated: 2026-08-30

Peer-reviewed sources

Source Design / sample Patient-voice contribution Limitation
Speirs B, et al. PLoS One. 2023;18:e0280059. PMID 36656805 15 qualitative carer interviews Five themes: person/disorder separation, carer health/coping, unpredictability, disillusionment/silencing, story-sharing/support Small Australian volunteer sample; carer rather than patient voice
Cerimele JM, et al. J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry. 2024;65:148-156. PMID 37967752 Mixed methods, 20 adults Concrete preferences among three symptom-monitoring options; 55% ranked PMQ-9+PHQ-9 first Options constrained; primary-care/advocacy recruitment
Ellison N, et al. J Affect Disord. 2013;151:805-820. PMID 24135506 Systematic review, 25 articles Public and internalized stigma synthesis Literature through 2012; heterogeneous methods
Bulteau S, et al. Patient Prefer Adherence. 2018;12:1355-1361. PMID 30100712 Grounded-theory interviews, 12 euthymic bipolar I participants Subjective mania and state-dependent treatment disruption Small retrospective sample
Wittkowski A, et al. BMC Psychiatry. 2014;14:281. PMID 25403956 Metasynthesis, 13 studies / 250 women; 78 mothers Illness beliefs, consequences and coping; stigma, self-determination and relationships Combines psychosis and bipolar studies
Karidi MV, et al. J Affect Disord. 2015;184:209-215. PMID 26112330 Scale study, 120 bipolar/schizophrenia participants Self-stigma, functioning and self-esteem comparison Small sample; cross-sectional
Krogh HB, et al. Int J Bipolar Disord. 2023;11:5. PMID 36735118 Preliminary qualitative pilot Sexuality as a neglected care and research domain Pilot scale; no prevalence inference
Glossop Z, et al. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2024;31:e70001. PMID 39441546 Personal-recovery network analysis Multidimensional recovery structure Network edges are not causal
Zhou Y, et al. BMC Psychiatry. 2016;16:283. PMID 27515535 Comparative family-burden study Family burden in a Chinese hospital context Acute-hospital setting
Williams E, et al. West J Nurs Res. 2022;44:279-287. PMID 34889140 Caregiver burden and HRV Treats carer health as an outcome Association, not causal effect
Samalin L, et al. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2018;20:23. PMID 29589129 Systematic review of shared decision-making in mood disorders Evidence base for preference-sensitive decisions Mood-disorder scope broader than bipolar disorder
Miklowitz DJ, et al. JAMA Psychiatry. 2021;78:141-150. PMID 33052390 Systematic review/component NMA Psychotherapy components and outcomes Trial outcomes are not direct lived-experience evidence
Rabelo JL, et al. World J Psychiatry. 2021;11:1407-1424. PMID 35070785 Systematic review Psychoeducation landscape Intervention synthesis, not qualitative patient voice
Faurholt-Jepsen M. Dan Med J. 2018;65:B5460. PMID 29510813 Dissertation synthesis Digital monitoring benefits, absent RCT symptom effect, privacy/legal concerns Author-centered body of work
Saccaro LF, et al. J Affect Disord. 2021;295:323-338. PMID 34488086 Systematic review, 62 studies Digital-phenotyping burden, ethics and generalizability context Heterogeneous small studies

Public organization sources

  • Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance — homepage, https://www.dbsalliance.org/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • International Bipolar Foundation — homepage, https://ibpf.org/, accessed 2026-08-30. HTTP 403 anti-bot interstitial; organization identity/domain resolved, program detail not extracted.
  • Bipolar UK — homepage, https://www.bipolaruk.org/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • Bipolar UK — support groups, https://www.bipolaruk.org/Pages/Category/support-groups, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • Bipolar Scotland — homepage, https://www.bipolarscotland.org.uk/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • Bipolar Australia — homepage, https://www.bipolaraustralia.org.au/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • Mood Disorders Society of Canada — homepage, https://mdsc.ca/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • GAMIAN-Europe — homepage, https://www.gamian.eu/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • South African Depression and Anxiety Group — homepage, https://www.sadag.org/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • Bipolar India — homepage, https://www.bipolarindia.com/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • Japanese Alliance of Bipolar Disorder / Nautilus Association — homepage, https://bipolar-disorder.or.jp/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • Asociación Colombiana del Trastorno Bipolar — homepage, https://bipolaresco.org/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • ABRATA — homepage, https://www.abrata.org.br/site2025/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.
  • FUBIPA — about page, https://fubipa.org.ar/quienes-somos/, accessed 2026-08-30. Direct fetch HTTP 200.

Coverage limits

The scholarly sources are disproportionately English-language and high-income-setting studies. Carer and women-focused work is better represented than many other populations. The public organization list is a verified starting set, not a global census. An automated fetch barrier limited detail for IBPF; that site should be inspected interactively before adding program-specific claims.

No private story page, closed group or individual social-media account was accessed. No private individual's name, quotation or identifying detail is stored.