Unemployment, job retention, and productivity loss among employees with depression

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1371-1378

  Lerner, Debra ^a,b   Adler, David A ^a,b   Chang, Hong ^a   Lapitsky, Leueen ^a   Hood, Maggie Y ^a   Perissinotto, Carla ^a   Reed, John ^c   McLaughlin, Thomas J ^d   Berndt, Ernst R ^e,f   Rogers, William H ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Fallon Clinic   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; EMPLOYEE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRODUCTIVITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK DISABILITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; EFFICIENCY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 9644259019     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.55.12.1371     Document Type: Article

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