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Problems and Mental Illness |
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| 3,258
Edmonton adults were assessed for psychiatric disorders and social
problem behaviours. The graphic shows a high level of association between social problems and psychiatric disorders. Out of the 64 disorder-problem pairings, only seven did not show a statistically significant association (grey squares). Thus, any diagnosis is associated with all, or nearly all, social problems. |
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| OR = Odds Ratio. Example: A
red square indicates that suicide attemptors have more than 10 times
the odds of having
schizophrenia, in comparison to non-attemptors (and vice verse).
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Source: Thompson AH, Bland RC (1995). Social dysfunction and mental illness in a community sample. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 40, 1-6. | |||
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