Attachment to Employment and Education Before Work Disability Pension Due to a Mental Disorder Among Young Adults

Overview

Journal BMC Psychiatry

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2016 May 15

PMID 27177691

Citations 4

Authors

Pauliina Mattila-Holappa

Matti Joensuu

Kirsi Ahola

Jussi Vahtera

Marianna Virtanen

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Abstract

Backround: We examined attachment to employment and education among young adults before they were granted a fixed-term work disability pension due to psychiatric diagnosis, and the factors associated with this attachment.

Methods: The data comprised all persons aged 18-34 who received a new-onset fixed-term disability pension compensation due to a mental disorder in Finland in 2008 (N = 1163). The data were derived from pension applications and the enclosed medical records, and were linked to employment records from a period of three years before the disability pension. We analysed the factors associated with attachment to employment or education with log-binomial regression analysis.

Results: Fifty percent of the participants were attached to employment or education before work disability pension. The attached were more often women; had higher basic and vocational education; had mood disorder rather than psychosis diagnosis as a primary diagnosis; and had no record of harmful alcohol use or drug use, or recorded symptoms of mental disorders already at school-age.

Conclusions: The level of attachment to employment or education before work disability pension is low among young adults with mental disorders and several risk factors predict poor attachment; severe or comorbid mental disorder, early-life psychiatric morbidity, substance use, male sex, low basic education, and lacking vocational education.

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