Mortality in persons with disability pension due to common mental disorders: A cohort study of Swedish construction workers.

Conclusions: This study shows that disability pension based on common mental disorders, often regarded as a 'lighter' psychiatric diagnosis, is a risk for early mortality in construction workers, even several years after first receiving disability pension.
PMID: 31820671 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - December 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Söderberg M, Schiöler L, Stattin M, Burdorf A, Järvholm B Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research