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Mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a Danish cohort study
PURPOSE: It has been hypothesized that employment in a fixed-term instead of permanent contract position is associated with an increased risk of development of mental health problems. The present study aimed at estimating rate ratios between fixed-term and permanent employees in the Danish labor for...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36416975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-022-01936-7 |
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author | Hannerz, Harald Burr, Hermann Nielsen, Martin Lindhardt Garde, Anne Helene Flyvholm, Mari-Ann |
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description | PURPOSE: It has been hypothesized that employment in a fixed-term instead of permanent contract position is associated with an increased risk of development of mental health problems. The present study aimed at estimating rate ratios between fixed-term and permanent employees in the Danish labor force, for use of psychotropic drugs and psychiatric hospital treatment due to mood, anxiety or stress-related disorders, respectively. METHODS: Employment data were drawn from the Danish Labor Force Survey of 2001–2013, which is a part of the European Labor Force Survey. Full-time employed survey participants without mental illness at the baseline interview (N = 106,501) were followed in national health registers for up to 5 years. Poisson regressions were used to estimate rate ratios for redeemed prescriptions of psychotropic drugs and psychiatric hospital treatments due to mood, anxiety or stress-related disease. The analyses were controlled for age, gender, industrial sector, nighttime work, level of education, calendar year, disposable family income and social transfer payments within 1 year prior to the baseline interview. RESULTS: The rate ratio for hospital diagnosed mood, anxiety or stress-related disorders among employees with fixed-term vs. permanent employment contracts was estimated at 1.39 (99.5% CI 1.04–1.86), while the corresponding rate ratio for redeemed prescriptions of psychotropic drugs was estimated at 1.12 (99.5% CI 1.01–1.24). CONCLUSION: The present study supports the hypothesis that employment in a fixed-term rather than permanent contract position is associated with an increased risk of developing mental health problems. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR2-10.2196/24392. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00420-022-01936-7. |
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spelling | pubmed-99682652023-02-27 Mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a Danish cohort study Hannerz, Harald Burr, Hermann Nielsen, Martin Lindhardt Garde, Anne Helene Flyvholm, Mari-Ann Int Arch Occup Environ Health Original Article PURPOSE: It has been hypothesized that employment in a fixed-term instead of permanent contract position is associated with an increased risk of development of mental health problems. The present study aimed at estimating rate ratios between fixed-term and permanent employees in the Danish labor force, for use of psychotropic drugs and psychiatric hospital treatment due to mood, anxiety or stress-related disorders, respectively. METHODS: Employment data were drawn from the Danish Labor Force Survey of 2001–2013, which is a part of the European Labor Force Survey. Full-time employed survey participants without mental illness at the baseline interview (N = 106,501) were followed in national health registers for up to 5 years. Poisson regressions were used to estimate rate ratios for redeemed prescriptions of psychotropic drugs and psychiatric hospital treatments due to mood, anxiety or stress-related disease. The analyses were controlled for age, gender, industrial sector, nighttime work, level of education, calendar year, disposable family income and social transfer payments within 1 year prior to the baseline interview. RESULTS: The rate ratio for hospital diagnosed mood, anxiety or stress-related disorders among employees with fixed-term vs. permanent employment contracts was estimated at 1.39 (99.5% CI 1.04–1.86), while the corresponding rate ratio for redeemed prescriptions of psychotropic drugs was estimated at 1.12 (99.5% CI 1.01–1.24). CONCLUSION: The present study supports the hypothesis that employment in a fixed-term rather than permanent contract position is associated with an increased risk of developing mental health problems. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR2-10.2196/24392. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00420-022-01936-7. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-11-22 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9968265/ /pubmed/36416975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-022-01936-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Hannerz, Harald Burr, Hermann Nielsen, Martin Lindhardt Garde, Anne Helene Flyvholm, Mari-Ann Mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a Danish cohort study |
title | Mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a Danish cohort study |
title_full | Mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a Danish cohort study |
title_fullStr | Mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a Danish cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a Danish cohort study |
title_short | Mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a Danish cohort study |
title_sort | mental illness rates among employees with fixed-term versus permanent employment contracts: a danish cohort study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36416975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-022-01936-7 |
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