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BACKGROUND There is a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression among adults with lower educational attainment. Delayed completion of high school (HS) is common and represents a potentially complicating factor in the relationship between educational attainment and anxiety and depression. This study aims to investigate whether delayed HS completion is associated with symptom levels of anxiety ...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders in children and adolescents have an impact on educational attainment. Aims To examine the temporal association between attainment in education and subsequent diagnosis of depression or self-harm in the teenage years. METHOD General practitioner, hospital and education records of young people in Wales between 1999 and 2014 were linked and analysed using Cox regressi...

OBJECTIVES To assess the feasibility, validity and responsiveness of an individualized measure--goal attainment scaling-in long-term care. DESIGN Prospective descriptive study. SETTING One academic and three community-based long-term care facilities. SUBJECTS 53 nursing-home patients seen in consultation between July 1996 and June 1997. INTERVENTION Specialized geriatric medicine consul...

OBJECTIVE The increasing number of veterans with complex health conditions accessing rehabilitation leads to the need for an outcome measure that identifies success in areas beyond return to work. The current study was designed to assess the feasibility of goal attainment scaling as a routine measure of outcomes of rehabilitation. METHODS Fifteen organisations contracted by the Australian Dep...

Adolescents' future expectations are a potentially important precursor of adult attainment and may illuminate how males and females vary in schooling and work. Thus, this longitudinal study examined gender variation in developmental trajectories of educational and occupational expectations from adolescence to adulthood and in connection to corresponding adult attainment. National data (NELS:88)...

This study utilizes a multivariate, correlational, expost facto research design to examine Parsons' "sick role" as a dynamic, time-sensitive process of "sick role" and "recovery role" and the impact of this process on goal attainment (H1) and psychosocial distress (H2) of adult survivors of acquired brain injury. Measures used include the Brief Symptom Inventory-18, a Goal Attainment Scale, and...