Common Mental Disorders among Occupational Groups: Contributions of the Latent Class Model

Figure 1

Conditional probabilities of positive responses to SRQ-20 items according to latent class analysis between informal workers and teachers. Q3: sleeping problems; Q2: lack of appetite; Q5: shaking hands; Q4: being frightened; Q1: headaches; Q17: thinking of ending life; Q15: loss of interest in life; Q6: feeling nervous; Q7/19: “somatization/digestive”; Q8/12: “unsafe behavior”; Q14/16: “feeling useless”; Q18/20: “tiredness”; Q13/11: work suffering; Q9/10: “unhappy.”

(a) Informal workers of Feira de Santana, 2008

(b) Teachers in the city of Salvador, 2006