The non-phase shifted schizophrenia subgroup (I) also showed melatonin rhythms that were stably synchronised with the 24 h day/night cycle and corresponded well with those of the healthy, unemployed controls but still showed highly irregular periods of sleep-wake episodes.
When looking at the possible effect of employment on cytokines levels, we found lower mRNA levels of IL-8 in unemployed healthy controls when compared with employed healthy controls (1.1 ± 0.2 vs 0.7 ± 1.1, t = 2.1, p = 0.048).
When excluding the elderly and unemployed jointly from the control group, we found no significant effect from labor market income.
The intervention group had a privilege to extra health service targeted for the unemployed (CHC), whereas the control group only could use the regular communal Health Centres.
For the subgroup of persons who plausibly spent most of their time at home (long-term retired, homemakers or unemployed, 53 cases, 79 controls), the ORs of leukemia plus non-Hodgkin lymphoma death (38 cases, 56 controls) by increasing tertiles of proximity were 1, 3.44 (95%% CI 1.04 11.37, significant) and 3.25 (95%% CI 0.82 12.87) (p trend 0.083).
Another local study [ 3] reported that 63% of the unemployed PLWE were poorly controlled.
This may be due to the fact that more patients were unemployed compared to healthy controls: 43% - 86%, respectively [ 30].
Muinga [ 2] in a study carried out at the same locality also reported that psychopathology in PLWE was positively correlated with unemployment while another recent local study [ 3] reported that up to 63% of the unemployed PLWE were poorly controlled.
Similar results have been recently found in a meta-analysis among subjects survived to a cancer diagnosed during working life: cancer survivors were found to have a 40% increased risk of being unemployed compared to healthy controls [ 57].
And nothing says "lack of control" like being unemployed and not being able to find a job.
