ArticleEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2015
Managers' reactions towards employees' disclosure of psychiatric or somatic diagnoses.
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- Disclosure of mental illness towards employers during the return to work process after psychiatric hospitalization.BMC psychiatry · 2026Trial
- On the Limitations of Burnout as an Indicator of Job-Related Distress.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Workplace Outcomes After Mental Health Disclosure: The Critical Influence of Supervisor Reactions.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Telepsychiatry in an Era of Digital Mental Health Startups.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Association of stigmatizing attitudes with people's opinion of depression as a valid reason for sickness absence: A Swedish vignette study.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Investigation on Psychological Status and Job Burnout of Managers in Petroleum Enterprises.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2022Article
- Burnout Stigma Inventory: Initial Development and Validation in Industry and Academia.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Deciding to Disclose a Mental Health Condition in Male Dominated Workplaces; A Focus-Group Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Providing mental health first aid in the workplace: a Delphi consensus study.BMC psychology · 2016Article
- Discrimination in the workplace, reported by people with major depressive disorder: a cross-sectional study in 35 countries.BMJ open · 2016Article
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Abstract
aimsTo study whether employees who disclose a psychiatric diagnosis, such as depression risk stigmatisation and discrimination at the workplace.
methodsRandomised experimental study with 748 managers from German companies incorporating four case vignettes displaying an employee with different 'diagnoses' (depression, burnout, private crisis and thyroid dysfunction), but identical unspecific complaints. Main outcome measures were the managers' attitudes and their impact on stigmatisation with respect to job performance.
resultsIn nearly all aspects of job performance, the diagnosis depression (psychiatric disorder) was seen as more critical than the diagnosis of a thyroid dysfunction (somatic disease). The diagnosis 'burnout' did not prove to be less stigmatising than 'depression'. Likewise 'private crisis' was rated less favourably than thyroid dysfunction.
conclusionsTherefore, employees have to evaluate if they disclose their psychiatric disorder or if they conceal it as a somatic illness.
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