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S23.01 - Employment in neurological disorders: The role of psychiatric comorbidity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
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Introduction:
Neurological disorders share many disability characteristics with psychiatric disorders, often affecting young adults and being “invisible”. Many OECD countries policies are attempting to maintain people with health disorders in the workplace, often with little information upon which to work. This presentation will review current knowledge in stroke, epilepsy, MS and Parkinsons disease
Material and Methods:
A literature review of Medline and Psychlit from 1986, with a particular emphasis upon modifiable risks factors for not being employed or leaving the workforce
Results:
There were few studies in this area. This was identified in several country's guidelines as an area lacking evidence e.g. in stroke 20% are of working age yet there are no evidence based interventions for returning people to work. When evaluated, comorbid psychiatric and cognitive morbidity was commonly, but not completely consistently, associated cross-sectionally and prospectively with poor work outcomes.
Conclusion:
More attention to the psychiatric sequelae of these disorders may lead to interventions and strategies to alleviate work related disability.
- Type
- Symposium: Clinical and epidemiological perspectives of work-related disability in mental illness
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 23 , Issue S2: 16th AEP Congress - Abstract book - 16th AEP Congress , April 2008 , pp. S37
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2008
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