key question Flashcards
what is the clinical key question?
what are the issues surrounding mental health in the works place?
how many companies have a policy on mental health?
1/10
how many people take days off due to stress?
1/5
how many working days are lost due to stress
11million
what are employees face in the workplace?
- inactivity
- isolation
- monotony of routine (no variation)
what are issues that affect society due to mental health in the workplace?
- costs the nhs
- lowers productivity
- encourages people from joining a particular career
what does stress prevent in a job?
form people performing a their best
what does depression lead to?
insomnia, hypersomnia and poor concentration
makes people unable to work
what can resigning cause?
loss of motivation
how much does tress cost uk businesses?
£26million a year
what are the issues with invalid diagnosis in the workaplce?
invalid diagnosis of type 1 or type 2 error
- cause unnecessary days of (type 1)
- can make illness worst (type 2)
what are studies to agree that diagnosis is unreliable
- beck 54% of 153 patients
- nicholls 64% of 81 patients
what is a study that shows that diagnosis is reliable?
goldstein
found that reliability in diagnosing people with substance abuse using dsm3
in which culture is stress more prevalent?
more devloped regions due to the jobs that they have
industrialised nations
what is a study to show that there are cultural issues?
kulharo
larger proportion of people have good outcomes of schiz in developing rathe than developed
what is a study that doesn’t support the idea of cultural issues?
lin
the similarities of symptoms between cultures outweigh the differences
what is an issue to do with the cause of schizophrenia?
that it is more prevalent in urban environments (stressful office jobs)
and mannual labour jobs
4/100 incidence rate in lower class (worst jobs)
what did cooper et al find?
that social class 5 4.1 times likely to get it than social class 1
managerial
showing that jobs could affect mental health
what are the weaknesses of the causes f schiz that show there are no issues in workplace?
-genes 2q11 depletion kirov 52% people had the xq23 variation disc 1 development -dopamine shows it is not social factors such as work but biological
what does brown suggest about support in the workplace?
he found that 92% of people who had support during a stressful life event saw it as helpful
self esteem is involved with the development so if failing at work
what can the symptoms of schiz cause issues?
-diminished interest
what does the cognitive explanation say about issues in workplace?
that it is caused by negative thinking which could be due to failing at work
should cbt be offered in the workplace?
NICE - most effective treatment for major and moderate depression
hollen - just as effective as drug treatments
iCBT - easy access that it effective
