key question

Question 1

what is the clinical key question?

Answer 1

what are the issues surrounding mental health in the works place?

Question 2

how many companies have a policy on mental health?

Answer 2

1/10

Question 3

how many people take days off due to stress?

Answer 3

1/5

Question 4

how many working days are lost due to stress

Answer 4

11million

Question 5

what are employees face in the workplace?

Answer 5

• inactivity
• isolation
• monotony of routine (no variation)

Question 6

what are issues that affect society due to mental health in the workplace?

Answer 6

• costs the nhs
• lowers productivity
• encourages people from joining a particular career

Question 7

what does stress prevent in a job?

Answer 7

form people performing a their best

Question 8

what does depression lead to?

Answer 8

insomnia, hypersomnia and poor concentration

makes people unable to work

Question 9

what can resigning cause?

Answer 9

loss of motivation

Question 10

how much does tress cost uk businesses?

Answer 10

£26million a year

Question 11

what are the issues with invalid diagnosis in the workaplce?

Answer 11

invalid diagnosis of type 1 or type 2 error

• cause unnecessary days of (type 1)
• can make illness worst (type 2)

Question 12

what are studies to agree that diagnosis is unreliable

Answer 12

• beck 54% of 153 patients

- nicholls 64% of 81 patients

Question 13

what is a study that shows that diagnosis is reliable?

Answer 13

goldstein

found that reliability in diagnosing people with substance abuse using dsm3

Question 14

in which culture is stress more prevalent?

Answer 14

more devloped regions due to the jobs that they have

industrialised nations

Question 15

what is a study to show that there are cultural issues?

Answer 15

kulharo

larger proportion of people have good outcomes of schiz in developing rathe than developed

Question 16

what is a study that doesn’t support the idea of cultural issues?

Answer 16

lin

the similarities of symptoms between cultures outweigh the differences

Question 17

what is an issue to do with the cause of schizophrenia?

Answer 17

that it is more prevalent in urban environments (stressful office jobs)
and mannual labour jobs
4/100 incidence rate in lower class (worst jobs)

Question 18

what did cooper et al find?

Answer 18

that social class 5 4.1 times likely to get it than social class 1
managerial
showing that jobs could affect mental health

Question 19

what are the weaknesses of the causes f schiz that show there are no issues in workplace?

Answer 19

-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

Question 20

what does brown suggest about support in the workplace?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

what can the symptoms of schiz cause issues?

Answer 21

-diminished interest

Question 22

what does the cognitive explanation say about issues in workplace?

Answer 22

that it is caused by negative thinking which could be due to failing at work

Question 23

should cbt be offered in the workplace?

Answer 23

NICE - most effective treatment for major and moderate depression
hollen - just as effective as drug treatments
iCBT - easy access that it effective