Open AccessEmotional demands at work and risk of hospital-treated depressive disorder in up to 1.6 million Danish employees: a prospective nationwide register-based cohort study
Author(s) -
Ida E. H. Madsen,
Jeppe Karl Sørensen,
Julie Eskildsen Bruun,
Elisabeth Framke,
Hermann Burr,
Maria Melchior,
Børge Sivertsen,
Stephen Stansfeld,
Mika Kivimäki,
Reiner Rugulies
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.4020
Subject(s) - psychosocial , workforce , medicine , confounding , danish , job control , hazard ratio , cohort study , depression (economics) , cohort , psychiatry , confidence interval , demography , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , sociology , engineering , economics , macroeconomics , economic growth
Previous studies on effects of emotional demands on depression have relied on self-reported exposure data and lacked control for potential confounding by pre-employment risk factors for depression. This study used a register-based design to examine the risk of hospital-treated depressive disorder in relation to occupational levels of emotional demands at work, furthermore addressing the role of risk factors for depression before workforce entry.