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Predictors of vocational status in schizophrenia patients – Results from the Polish nationwide survey

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  • Andrzej Kiejna
  • Patryk Piotrowski
  • BÅ‚ażej Misiak
  • Tomasz Adamowski
  • Agata Schubert
  • Iwona Skrzekowska-Baran
  • Dorota Frydecka

Abstract

Background: Steady employment constitutes one of most important aspects of functional recovery in schizophrenia. Therefore, there is a need for understanding clinical and demographic factors predicting vocational status in schizophrenia. Methods: Clinical and demographic data of 1,010 schizophrenia patients were gathered from public outpatient clinics. We compared patients who maintained employment between the diagnosis time point and the day of assessment, with the patients who were employed in the diagnosis time point but were unemployed on the day of assessment with respect to clinical and demographic variables. Results: Lower educational attainment, lower-income region of residence, medical comorbidities (obesity, diabetes and hypertension), first hospitalization at inpatient unit in comparison with the day hospital, higher total number of hospitalizations and the number of inpatient hospitalizations were found to serve as predictors of unemployment throughout the course of schizophrenia. After application of Bonferroni correction and logistic binary regression analysis, lower educational attainment, higher number of inpatient hospitalizations and obesity predicted unemployment. Conclusion: Education, obesity and the number of inpatient hospitalizations seem to predict vocational outcome in schizophrenia. This study warrants further investigation of medical comorbidities in schizophrenia in terms of social consequences in order to indicate the direction of this relationship.

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  • Andrzej Kiejna & Patryk Piotrowski & BÅ‚ażej Misiak & Tomasz Adamowski & Agata Schubert & Iwona Skrzekowska-Baran & Dorota Frydecka, 2015. "Predictors of vocational status in schizophrenia patients – Results from the Polish nationwide survey," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 61(8), pages 824-831, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:61:y:2015:i:8:p:824-831
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764015577841
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