Social class, social mobility and risk of psychiatric disorder--a population-based longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study explored how adult social class and social mobility between parental and own adult social class is related to psychiatric disorder.

Material and methods

In this prospective cohort study, over 1 million employed Swedes born in 1949-1959 were included. Information on parental class (1960) and own mid-life social class (1980 and 1990) was retrieved from the censuses and categorised as High Non-manual, Low Non-manual, High Manual, Low Manual and Self-employed. After identifying adult class, individuals were followed for psychiatric disorder by first admission of schizophrenia, alcoholism and drug dependency, affective psychosis and neurosis or personality disorder (N=24,659) from the Swedish Patient Register. We used Poisson regression analysis to estimate

SUBMITTER: Tiikkaja S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3829839 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature