Minna Holm1,2, Heidi Taipale2,3,4, Antti Tanskanen2,4,5, Jari Tiihonen2,4, Ellenor Mitterdorfer-Rutz2. 1. Mental Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland. 2. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. 3. School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. 4. Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Niuvanniemi Hospital, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. 5. The Impact Assessment Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To assess the employment rate and the related background factors among people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. METHODS: We identified all people in Sweden aged 18-64 years diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in nationwide registers in the years 2006-2013. The identified individuals were grouped by main activity or source of income. The association between background factors and employment was analyzed with generalized estimating equations (GEE). RESULTS: Three years before the first psychosis or bipolar disorder diagnosis, 24% of the individuals with schizophrenia and 45% of the individuals with bipolar disorder were employed. However, the employment rate dropped around the time of the first diagnosis. Five years later, 10% of the individuals with schizophrenia and 34% of the individuals with bipolar disorder were employed. The most important factors associated with employment after diagnosis were a high level of education, older age at the first registered diagnosis, no substance use disorder, and a low number of previous hospitalizations. Marriage or cohabiting, higher level of education, and higher age at the first diagnosis were associated with an increased employment rate especially among people with schizophrenia, and substance use was associated with a lower employment rate, especially among people with bipolar disorder. Men with bipolar disorder had a higher employment rate than women. CONCLUSION: The employment rate is low among people with schizophrenia and higher among people with bipolar disorder. The association of background characteristics with employment was mostly in the same direction both in schizophrenia and in bipolar disorder.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the employment rate and the related background factors among people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. METHODS: We identified all people in Sweden aged 18-64 years diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in nationwide registers in the years 2006-2013. The identified individuals were grouped by main activity or source of income. The association between background factors and employment was analyzed with generalized estimating equations (GEE). RESULTS: Three years before the first psychosis or bipolar disorder diagnosis, 24% of the individuals with schizophrenia and 45% of the individuals with bipolar disorder were employed. However, the employment rate dropped around the time of the first diagnosis. Five years later, 10% of the individuals with schizophrenia and 34% of the individuals with bipolar disorder were employed. The most important factors associated with employment after diagnosis were a high level of education, older age at the first registered diagnosis, no substance use disorder, and a low number of previous hospitalizations. Marriage or cohabiting, higher level of education, and higher age at the first diagnosis were associated with an increased employment rate especially among people with schizophrenia, and substance use was associated with a lower employment rate, especially among people with bipolar disorder. Men with bipolar disorder had a higher employment rate than women. CONCLUSION: The employment rate is low among people with schizophrenia and higher among people with bipolar disorder. The association of background characteristics with employment was mostly in the same direction both in schizophrenia and in bipolar disorder.
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