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Factors Associated with Long-Term Sickness Absence Due to Mental Disorders: A Cohort Study of 7.112 Patients during the Spanish Economic Crisis.
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- Factors Related to the Recurrence of Sickness Absence Due to Common Mental Health Disorders: A Systematic Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
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- Identifying risk factors of long sickness absences: a registry-based study using explainable AI methods.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Incidence Rates and Predictors of Recurrent Long-Term Mental Sickness Absence Due to Common Mental Disorders.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Sickness absence around contact with outpatient mental health care services - differences between migrants and non-migrants: a Norwegian register study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- How does Gender Influence Sustainable Return to Work Following Prolonged Work Disability? An Interpretive Description Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Review
- The Impact of Economic Recessions on Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma-Related Disorders and Illness Outcomes-A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Analysis of Consultation Demand in a Mental Health Centre during the Recent Economic Recession.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2021Article
- The Relationship between Self-Employed Workers' Entrepreneurial Attitude and Health Status.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Work Disability Trajectories Among Individuals with a Sick-Leave Spell Due to Depressive Episode ≥ 21 Days: A Prospective Cohort Study with 13-Month Follow Up.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2018Article
- Determinants of Sickness Absence and Return to Work Among Employees with Common Mental Disorders: A Scoping Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2018Article
- The effect of long-term sickness absence on coworkers in the same work unit.Industrial health · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundMental health problems are very common and often lead to prolonged sickness absence, having serious economic repercussions for most European countries. Periods of economic crisis are important social phenomena that are assumed to increase sickness absence due to mental disorders, although research on this topic remains scarce. The aim of this study was to gather data on long-term sickness absence (and relapse) due to mental disorders in Spain during a period of considerable socio-economic crisis.
methodsRelationships were analyzed (using chi-squared tests and multivariate modelling via binary logistic regression) between clinical, social/employment-related and demographic factors associated and long-term sickness absence (>60 consecutive days) due to mental disorders in a cohort of 7112 Spanish patients during the period 2008-2012.
resultsOlder age, severe mental disorders, being self-employed, having a non-permanent contract, and working in the real estate and construction sector were associated with an increased probability of long-term sickness absence (gender had a mediating role with respect to some of these variables). Relapses were associated with short-term sick leave (return to work due to 'improvement') and with working in the transport sector and public administration.
conclusionsAside from medical factors, other social/employment-related and demographic factors have a significant influence on the duration of sickness absence due to mental disorders.
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