Relationship between stressfulness of claiming for injury: Compensation and long-term recovery: A prospective cohort study

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 446-453

  Grant, Genevieve M ^a,b   O'Donnell, Meaghan L ^c   Spittal, Matthew J ^b   Creamer, Mark ^c   Studdert, David M ^d,e  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RANDOM SAMPLE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WORK DISABILITY; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DISABILITY ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE SUM SCORE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84898657640     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.4023     Document Type: Article

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