In one of the few studies estimating undetected CMD in a national register of all-cause long-term sickness absence (exceeding 8 weeks), Soegaard [ 36] found that, among individuals without any psychiatric sick-leave diagnosis, 19.9% had undetected depression and 6.4% had undetected anxiety symptoms [ 36].
In our study, change of occupation after psychiatric sickness absence was also associated with reduced odds of sick leave.
In our study, we used register-based sick leave as outcome and assessed the associations of the type of treatment on psychiatric sickness absence in a large group of employees by questionnaires.
They had vivid stories to tell of their encounters in the streets, "as opposed to the repetition of very sick psychiatric patients".
Being forced to face the problem of child sexual abuse by priests, the hierarchy has been quick to run for cover under the psychiatric umbrella 'these men are sick.'''' Yet, as Sipe points out, the more that psychiatrists have investigated the problem of sexually abusive priests, the more the Church has lost control over individual cases, and the harder it has become to handle them in secrecy.
Furthermore, all patients refereed to the psychiatric clinic were on sick leave due to psychiatric problems, and even though the evidence behind the specialised treatments is lacking we considered that some form of specialised treatment was needed for all patients at the psychiatric clinic.
Being forced to face the problem of child sexual abuse by priests, the hierarchy has been quick to run for cover under the psychiatric umbrella — 'these men are sick.' " Yet, as Sipe points out, the more that psychiatrists have investigated the problem of sexually abusive priests, the more the Church has lost control over individual cases, and the harder it has become to handle them in secrecy.
For, if psychiatric imperative is to treat "sick souls", then clinicians would be remiss in over privileging a scientific attitude to the exclusion of all others.
Among those with no psychiatric diagnosis 11% were on sick leave on the 100th day versus 27% among those with such a diagnosis, and finally among those with an upper respiratory tract diagnosis 4% were still on sick leave on the 100th day as compared with 17% among those with other diagnoses.
A Swedish study by Vaez et al 7 on employees long-term sick-listed for psychiatric disorders in 1999 showed an increase in the mean number of sickness absence days from 17 days in 1996 to 211 days in 2000.
