ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2022
Sexual and gender harassment and use of psychotropic medication among Swedish workers: a prospective cohort study.
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- Gender-based violence and harassment at work and health and occupational outcomes. A systematic review of prospective studies.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Procedural justice, managerial leadership and gender-based harassment in the workplace: longitudinal cross-lagged associations in a Swedish cohort.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Workplace sexual harassment is associated with poor mental well-being among employees at a large Swedish university.Global health action · 2025Article
- Workplace mistreatment of Swedish health care professionals: prevalence and perpetrators across profession, sex, and birth country.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Workplace sexual harassment: a qualitative study of the self-labelling process among employees in Denmark.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
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- Work-related sexual and gender harassment: conceptual challenges and the need for evidence-based prevention.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Article
- Gender-based harassment in Swedish workplaces and alcohol-related morbidity and mortality: A prospective cohort study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Article
- [Social perception of workplace sexual harassment in the healthcare system.]Revista espanola de salud publica · 2023Observational
- Relationship between Sexual Violence and the Health of Spanish Women-A National Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Adverse social behaviour at work and health-related employment exit: a prospective population-based four-wave survey.European journal of public health · 2023Article
- Bi-directional associations between gender-based harassment at work, psychological treatment and depressive symptoms.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo estimate the prospective association between the exposure to three types of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) and psychotropic medication.
methodsInformation on three measures of workplace GBVH-sexual harassment (1) from superiors or colleagues, (2) from others (eg, clients) and (3) gender harassment from superiors or colleagues-were retrieved from the biannual Swedish Work Environment Survey 2007-2013 (N=23 449), a representative sample of working 16-64 years old registered in Sweden. The survey answers were merged with data on antidepressants, hypnotics/sedatives and anxiolytics from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register. Cox proportional hazards analyses with days to purchase as time scale and first instance of medicine purchase as failure event were fitted, adjusted for demographic and workplace factors.
resultsWorkers who reported exposure to gender harassment only (HR 1.2, 95% CI 1.07 to 1.36), to sexual but not gender harassment (HR 1.21, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.40), or to gender and sexual harassment (HR 1.31, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.60) had an excess risk of psychotropics use in comparison to workers who reported neither of the exposures in the past 12 months. We found no interaction between the exposures and gender in the association with psychotropics use.
conclusionsExposure to sexual or gender harassment at the workplace may contribute to the development of mental disorders.
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