SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conduct Disorder, High School Dropouts, Sample Size Determination
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When people have these issues are there real consequences to their lives: higher distress lower income in 4 years study, distress tends to spill into something about work and work performance. Both depression and alcohol create a higher risk of divorce. If selection was dominant causation of mental disorders would be more biological ses doesn"t affect mental health. Prevalence and effects of mood disorders on work performance. Usually on depression and work performance so wanted to look at bpd and mania/hypomania. 1. 1% of the workers met cidi criteria for bpd, 6. 4% met it for mdd: bpd had more lost workdays than mdd, more severe and persistent episodes in those with bpd. Didn"t get to control for the causes on the onsets of the disorders which may limit the generalizability. Find that we actually loosing less money than we thought due to workers having these disorders. People are incorrectly treated sometimes if they have bpd treated as mdd.
