Incidence rates of sickness absence related to mental disorders: a systematic literature review

BMC Public Health

Hiske Hees¹  Sarah Bonato²  Desmond Loong³  Carolyn S Dewa⁴ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 5, Room PA1-156, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Library Services, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto M5S 2S1, Canada;Centre for Research on Employment and Workplace Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto M5S 2S1, Canada;Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 250 College Street, Toronto M5T 1R8, Canada

关键词: Incidence;    Mental disorders;    Sickness absence;   

Others  :  1132442
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-14-205

 received in 2013-08-30, accepted in 2014-02-18,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Over the past decade, growing attention has been given to the mental health of workers. One way to examine the mental health of workers is to look at the incidence rates of mental illness-related sickness absence. There is a scarcity of literature in which the incidence rates of mental illness-related sickness absence among different countries have been considered together. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to address the question: Are there similarities and differences in the incidence rates of mental disorder-related sickness absence among and within OECD identified Social Democratic, Liberal and Latin American country categories? In this paper, we seek to identify differences and similarities in the literature rather than to explain them. With this review, we lay the groundwork for and point to areas for future research as well as to raise questions regarding reasons for the differences and similarities.

Methods

A systematic literature search of the following databases were performed: Medline Current, Medline In-process, PsycINFO, Econlit and Web of Science. The search period covered 2002–2013. The systematic literature search focused on working adults between 18–65 years old who had not retired and who had mental and/or substance abuse disorders. Intervention studies were excluded. The search focused on medically certified sickness absences.

Results

A total of 3,818 unique citations were identified. Of these, 10 studies met the inclusion/exclusion criteria; six were from Social Democratic countries. Their quality ranged from good to excellent. There was variation in the incidence rates reported by the studies from the Social Democratic, Liberal and Latin American countries in this review.

Conclusions

The results of this systematic review suggest that this is an emerging area of inquiry that needs to continue to grow. Priority areas to support growth include cross jurisdictional collaboration and development of a typology characterizing the benefit generosity and work integration policies of sickness absence schemes. Finally, the literature should be updated to reflect changes in sickness absence benefit schemes over time.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Dewa et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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