Common mental disorders and cause-specific disability retirement

Common mental disorders and cause-specific disability retirement.

OBJECTIVES Common mental disorders are prevalent among employees and may cause work disability. We aimed to examine the association between common mental disorders and disability retirement, with an emphasis on the severity of disorders and diagnostic causes for retirement. METHODS Our data were derived from the Helsinki Health Study cohort on the staff of the City of Helsinki, Finland. The b...

Common mental disorders, subthreshold symptoms and disability: longitudinal study.

In a representative sample of the UK population we found that common mental disorders (as a group and in ICD-10 diagnostic categories) and subthreshold psychiatric symptoms at baseline were both independently associated with new-onset functional disability and significant days lost from work at 18-month follow-up. Subthreshold symptoms contributed to almost half the aggregate burden of function...

The relationship between personal debt and specific common mental disorders.

BACKGROUND Personal debt is now recognized as one of the many factors associated with common mental disorders (CMD). We aim to estimate the prevalence of 'specific' mental disorders based on ICD-10 research diagnostic criteria by type of debt and quantify the additional influence of addictive behaviours. METHOD A random probability sample comprising 7461 respondents were interviewed for the t...

Mental Disorders, Mental Disability at Work

Common mental disorders.

Common mental disorders are a group of distress states manifesting with anxiety, depressive and unexplained somatic symptoms typically encountered in community and primary care settings. Risk factors for these disorders are mainly lower socio-economic status, psychological illnesses, poor reproductive health, gender disadvantage and physical ill-health. WHO has recommended that treatment of all...