A long-term follow-up study of labor market marginalization in psychiatric patients with and without personality disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personality disorders (PDs) in adulthood are considered stable over time and are likely to have lasting psychosocial impact on the affected individual, including in areas like vocational functioning. The aim of this study was to study labor market marginalization (LMM) and receipt of social welfare benefits during 13 years from age 18 to 25 years in a sample of former psychiatric patients with and without PD.

Methods

This study followed-up 186 former psychiatric patients who were thoroughly assessed in 2002-2004, including for PD, and compared them with controls. Participants were divided into three groups: former patients with PD, without PD, and a matched control group from the general population. Register data on employment, sick leave absence, disability pensi

SUBMITTER: Spangenberg H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10392854 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature