Pre-Existing and New-Onset Depression and Anxiety Among Workers With Injury or Illness Work Leaves.
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SUBMITTER: Gaspar FW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7537737 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
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Pre-Existing and New-Onset Depression and Anxiety Among Workers With Injury or Illness Work Leaves.
Gaspar Fraser W FW Jolivet Daniel N DN Wizner Kerri K Schott Fred F Dewa Carolyn S CS
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 20201001 10
<h4>Objectives</h4>To examine the influence of depression and/or anxiety on work leaves and the impact of work leaves on experiencing a new-onset depression and/or anxiety disorder.<h4>Methods</h4>IBM's MarketScan® research databases were linked to investigate depressive and anxiety disorders in workers with a work leave due to an injury or non-mental health illness (n = 467,930) and without a work leave (n = 2,764,447).<h4>Results</h4>The odds of a work leave within a year were 2.10 times highe ...[more]
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