Predictors of Employment Status for Persons with Bipolar Disorder

Shu-Jen Lu, Tsan-Hon Liou, Ming-Been Lee, Chia-Feng Yen, Yen-Ling Chen, Reuben Escorpizo and Ay-Woan Pan
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Shu-Jen Lu: Vocational Rehabilitation Resource Center for Individuals with Disabilities, Hsinchu 31064, Taiwan
Tsan-Hon Liou: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City 235041, Taiwan
Ming-Been Lee: Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Chia-Feng Yen: Department of Public Health, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 97004, Taiwan
Yen-Ling Chen: Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan
Reuben Escorpizo: Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Ay-Woan Pan: School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10051, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 6, 1-11

Abstract: Bipolar disorder is characterized by manic and depressive episodes and can be a lifetime condition. Bipolar disorder has been found to be associated with various types of disabilities, including low employment rate and high dependence on public aid. The purpose of this study is to identify factors related to being employed for persons with bipolar disorder. Nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-six subjects with bipolar disorder were collected between July of 2012 and November of 2013 and retrieved from Taiwan national disability database on May of 2014. The mean age of the sample is 45.41 (SD = 10.5), with 64% as female. Logistic regression was used to examine the log odds of the predictive variables on outcome of employment. A Receiver Operating Characteristics analysis was applied to locate the cutoff score of World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 for being employed. All demographic variables were found to be significantly correlated with employment status among subjects. The Receiver Operating Characteristics results revealed that those subjects whose scores were below 33.57 had about a four-fold higher probability of being in employment than those whose scores were above 33.57. The result provides insights into future research effort and intervention design aimed at helping persons with bipolar disorder to obtain gainful employment.

Keywords: mental illness; ICF; vocational rehabilitation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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