3. Did individuals with several different sick-leave diagnoses also have mental sick-leave diagnoses?
Also the risk associated with one additional mental sick-leave spell remained higher after multivariate adjustment, HR 1.17, CI 1.02-1.33.
Due to collinearity of the variable "number of mental sick-leave spells" with other sick-leave related covariates, a separate multivariate analysis was carried out including this variable adjusting for socio-demographics and health care determinants.
Gjesdal and Bratberg [ 26] conducted a three-year cohort study that included approximately 10% of people on long-term sick leave (>eight weeks) in Norway, and they found significantly poorer prognoses for those with mental sick-leave diagnoses and diseases affecting the nervous, respiratory, or circulatory system than for those on long-term sickness absence due to musculoskeletal disorders.
The risk of being granted disability pension was found to increase with increasing duration of sick leave and number of mental sick-leave spells, which is consistent with previous reports based on the general population and occupational cohorts [ 10, 11, 29– 31].
The questionnaire included items on socio-demographic factors, physical and mental health, sick-leave, working life, family conditions, life-events, leisure and lifestyle and is included as an additional file [see Additional file 1].
She added: "Making light of suicide and underlying mental health problems is sick, sick stuff.
Few studies have examined the mental capacity of sick patients.
I can imagine the sick mental pathways by which suicide comes to seem like the one consciousness-quenching substance that nobody can take away from you.
Local media in Chongqing announced that he was on a mental health-related sick leave.
