Depressive symptoms and the risk of long-term sickness absence: A prospective study among 4747 employees in Denmark

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 875-880

  Bültmann, Ute ^a   Rugulies, Reiner ^a   Lund, Thomas ^a   Christensen, Karl Bang ^a   Labriola, Merete ^a   Burr, Hermann ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

General working population; Longitudinal study; Mental health; Sickness absence

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33750999038     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0110-y     Document Type: Article

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