Education and employment levels among Jamaican patients newly diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Bertilee Burgess, Desdemona Curtis-Downes and Roger C. Gibson

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2013, vol. 59, issue 3, 247-253

Abstract: Background: Comparisons between persons with bipolar disorder and those with schizophrenia are not well researched in the Caribbean. Aims: To compare the educational and occupational attainments in Jamaicans diagnosed with these two disorders. Methods: Data on diagnosis, educational level, type of employment and other basic socio-demographic variables were collected from Jamaican hospital patients who were newly diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Fisher’s exact and χ2 tests, as well as binary logistic regression, were used to explore how these characteristics varied according to diagnosis. Statistical significance was taken at p

Keywords: Schizophrenia; bipolar disorder; educational status; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764011433638

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