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Work and mental disorders in a German national representative sample (2006)
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@MISC{Roesler06workand,
author = {Ulrike Roesler and F. Jacobi and Renate Rau},
title = {Work and mental disorders in a German national representative sample},
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
Most previous studies concerning the associations between work and mental ill-health have used dimensional self-report questionnaires for mental health problems (e.g., depressive symptoms). This study contributes to occupational health research by providing standardized clinical diagnoses based on DSM-IV criteria. A total of 2329 employees (age 18 65 years) took part in a structured, computer-assisted clinical interview (DIA-X/M-CIDI). Further, they specified whether their job was characterized by physical workload, overtime, or stress, and evaluated whether they feel impaired by each job characteristic. Results show that substance abuse/dependence (including nicotine dependence) was the highest prevalent mental disorder in German employees (12 month prevalence: 14.4%; only alcohol and illicit substance abuse/dependence: 4.9%) followed by anxiety (12.0%) somatoform (9.7%), and affective (9.3%) disorders. Sequential logistic regression analyses showed significant associations between the presence of stress at work and affective and somatoform disorders. Furthermore, feeling impaired by stress at work was strongly associated with anxiety, affective, somatoform disorders, and substance abuse/dependence. Beside work, personal characteristics, primarily gender, were associated with mental disorders in employees. However, except for affective
Keyphrases
mental disorder german national representative sample substance abuse dependence somatoform disorder month prevalence prevalent mental disorder computer-assisted clinical interview depressive symptom mental ill-health previous study personal characteristic occupational health research german employee physical workload dsm-iv criterion dia-x m-cidi sequential logistic regression analysis nicotine dependence mental health problem significant association standardized clinical diagnosis illicit substance abuse dependence beside work dimensional self-report questionnaire
