Table 2.

An informational table completed by each site

	Mean (SD)	Range	Distribution** Shapiro-Wilk (p)	Descriptor
LEVEL ONE MEASURES	---	---	---	---
Age	In years			e.g., first episode
Sex	%Female
Race	%White
Education level	In years			Primary/secondary
LEVEL TWO MEASURES	---	---	---	---
BD subtype	%BDI/BDII/NOS
Psychosis Hx	%yes/no			Lifetime presence
Current depressive sx	HDRS/MDRS score			mild/mod/severe
Current manic sx	YMRS/other score			mild/mod/severe
Age at onset dep	In years
Age at onset mania	In years
# Prior manias
#Prior depressions
# total episodes				Full mania/depression
#Hospitalizations
#Suicide attempts
Comorbid substance dx	%yes/no			Lifetime presence
Comorbid anxiety dx	%yes/no			Lifetime presence
LEVEL THREE MEASURES	---	---	---	---
Global cognition				Calculated g using PCA
Premorbid IQ				e.g., proxy WRAT/NART
Medications
Lithium	% Yes
Anticonvulsants	% Yes
Antipsychotics	% Yes
Antidepressants	% Yes
Benzodiazepines	% Yes
Total number of psychotropic meds	Mean (SD)
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OUTCOME MEASURES
Global functioning				Provide name of scale
Global functioning impaired				Provide name of scale
Social functioning				Provide name of scale
Occupational fx				Provide name of scale
Independent living				Provide name of scale
Employed	Yes/no

^**Shapiro-Wilk test for normality should be reported for each measure