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Published in: BMC Psychiatry 1/2016

Open Access 01-12-2016 | Research article

Attachment to employment and education before work disability pension due to a mental disorder among young adults

Authors: Pauliina Mattila-Holappa, Matti Joensuu, Kirsi Ahola, Jussi Vahtera, Marianna Virtanen

Published in: BMC Psychiatry | Issue 1/2016

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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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Metadata
Title
Attachment to employment and education before work disability pension due to a mental disorder among young adults
Authors
Pauliina Mattila-Holappa
Matti Joensuu
Kirsi Ahola
Jussi Vahtera
Marianna Virtanen
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Psychiatry / Issue 1/2016
Electronic ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-0854-1

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