A newspaper reports findings from two pieces of mental health research.
| Research evidence | Newspaper headline |
|---|---|
| Adults with a permanent home address could choose whether to return a postal questionnaire. About one in ten respondents said that they had received a diagnosis of clinical depression at some point in their life. | “Exactly 10% of all UK adults are experiencing depression now.” |
| Five years after a first diagnosis of schizophrenia, about one in five participants had fully recovered, three in five had improved greatly but still had some symptoms, and one in five continued to have troubling symptoms. | “Four in five people diagnosed with schizophrenia fully recover within five years.” |
State what is meant by each of the following:
Using the evidence in the table and your knowledge of key mental health statistics, explain one problem with each newspaper headline.
144 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 3.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 3.2.1 Clinical characteristics of schizophrenia, 3.2.2 Key statistics of schizophrenia, 3.2.3 Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, 3.2.4 Brain structure and function in schizophrenia; criticisms, 3.2.5 Social drift theory of schizophrenia, 3.2.6 Schizophrenia research study: Daniel et al. (1991), 3.2.7 Clinical characteristics of clinical depression, 3.2.8 Key statistics of clinical depression, 3.2.9 Social rank theory of clinical depression, 3.2.10 ABC Model of clinical depression, and 3.2.11 Clinical Depression research study: Tandoc et al. (2015). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.