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Er verknaden av angst og depresjon på uføretrygding undervurdert?
(The University of Bergen, 2003)
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate anxiety and depression as risk factors for receiving disability pension. The empirical data originates from the Nord-Trøndelag health survey conducted in 1995-1997, and ...
Job strain, health and sickness absence: results from the Hordaland Health Study
(PLoS, 2014-04-22)
Objectives: While it is generally accepted that high job strain is associated with adverse occupational outcomes, the nature of this relationship and the causal pathways involved are not well elucidated. We aimed to assess ...
Lost Working Years Due to Mental Disorders: An Analysis of the Norwegian Disability Pension Registry
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-08-15)
Objectives: Mental disorders are prevalent diagnoses in disability benefit statistics, with awards often granted at younger
age than for other diagnoses. We aimed to compare the number of lost working years following ...
Mental health and impairment in disability benefits. Studies applying linkages between health surveys and administrative registries
(The University of Bergen, 2007-09-19)
Objective: An increasing number of people in Norway and most other western countries leave the workforce
earlier than retirement age and depend on disability benefits for income security. There
is no consensus concerning ...
Employment status and perceived health in the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK)
(BioMed Central, 2006-08-29)
Background: Most western countries have disability benefit schemes ostensibly based upon
requiring (1) a work inhibiting functional limitation that (2) can be attributed to a diagnosable
condition, injury or disease. The ...
An investigation of factors identified at birth in relation to anxiety and depression in old age: the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK)
(BioMed Central, 2013-05-10)
Background:
Although life course influences have long been recognised in affective disorder, little is known about
the influence of early life factors on late life anxiety and depression. The aim was to investigate the ...
Do gastrointestinal complaints increase the risk for subsequent medically certified long-term sickness absence? The HUSK study
(BioMed Central, 2011-07-29)
Background: Gastrointestinal complaints are very common in the general population and very often co-occur with
common mental disorders. We aimed to study the prospective impact of gastrointestinal complaints on long ...
Expectations and illness perceptions as predictors of benefit recipiency among workers with common mental disorders: secondary analysis from a randomised controlled trial
(BMJ, 2014-03-03)
Objective Common mental disorders (CMDs) are among the leading causes of sick leave, and more knowledge on factors related to work participation and return-to-work (RTW) in CMDs is needed. The aim of this study was to ...
General practitioners' opinions on how to improve treatment of mental disorders in primary health care. Interviews with one hundred Norwegian general practitioners
(BioMed Central, 2010-02-09)
Background
Improvements in treatment of mental disorders are repeatedly called for. General practitioners (GPs) are responsible for the majority of treatment of mental disorders. Consequently, we interviewed GPs about ...
Registry-based analysis of participator representativeness: a source of concern for sickness absence research?
(BMJ, 2016-10-21)
Objectives: Selective participation can bias results in epidemiological surveys. The importance of health status is often suggested as a possible explanation for non-participation but few empirical studies exist. In a ...