Effects of seeking compensation on the psychological health and recovery of injured patients: the role of stress vulnerability and injury-related disability.

CONCLUSIONS: This study provides convincing evidence that seeking compensation is not necessarily harmful to psychological health. The person's stress vulnerability and injury-related disability emerge as major risk factors of long-term psychological distress, requiring a whole-systems approach to address the problem. PMID: 32515720 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32515720?dopt=Abstract

Source: Psychological Medicine - June 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pozzato I, Kifley A, Craig A, Gopinath B, Tran Y, Jagnoor J, Cameron ID Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research

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