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. 2017 Feb 3;5:4. doi: 10.1186/s40345-017-0071-y

Table 3.

Rank order of severity of manic symptoms by age group (symptoms are reported as mean score or  %)

McElroy et al. (1997)a Birmaher et al. (2009)b,c Safer et al. (2012)a
Mean ± SD Mean ± SD POMPd (%)
Adolescent Adult Child Adolescent Child/adolescent Adult
Increased motor activity
 (2.5 ± 1.4)
Bizarre/grandiose thought content (3.2 ± 1.4) High energy (4.3 ± 1.4) High energy (4.8 ± 1.0) Irritability (17) Grandiosity (16)
Delusions
 (2.1 ± 1.7)
Delusions (2.7 ± 1.4) Increased motor activity (4.3 ± 1.2) Decreased need for sleep (4.5 ± 1.7) Aggression (15) Rapid speech (16)
Bizarre/grandiose thought content
 (2.1 ± 1.9)
Thought disturbance (2.2 ± 1.6) Irritability (4.1 ± 1.5) Elation (4.4 ± 1.0) Rapid speech (15) Irritability (14)
Thought disturbance
 (1.4 ± 1.6)
Sleep disturbance (1.9 ± 1.2) Mood lability (4.1 ± 1.1) Increased motor activity (4.3 ± 1.1) Grandiosity (10) Motor activity (10)
Sleep disturbance
 (1.3 ± 1.3)
Increased motor activity (1.8 ± 1.4) Elation (3.9 ± 1.2) Accelerated speech (4.2 ± 1.1) Motor activation (9) Elevated mood (9)
Increased goal directed/aggressive behaviour
 (0.8 ± 1.1)
Increased goal directed/aggressive behaviour (1.1 ± 1.2) Accelerated speech (3.9 ± 1.2) Poor judgement (4.0 ± 1.6);
Racing thoughts (4.0 ± 1.3)
Elevated mood (9) Aggression (9)

N.B. The range of possible scores for YMRS and K-MRS items differ, so mean scores are not directly comparable for similar symptoms

a Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS); b K-SADS Mania Rating Scale (K-MRS)

c Most items are from the YMRS, but ‘delusions’ and ‘bizarre/grandiose thought content’ were from the Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms

d POMP = Percent of maximum possible score; All  % are reported to the nearest integer