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Table 3 Associations between eight lifetime mental disorders and sick leave

From: Mood, anxiety, and alcohol use disorders and later cause-specific sick leave in young adult employees

 

Partially adjusted

Adjusted

 

RR

(95 % CI)

RR

(95 % CI)

All – cause sick leave

 Major depressive disorder

1.7

(1.4 – 2.1)

1.3

(1.1 – 1.7)

 Dysthymia

2.9

(1.6 – 5.1)

2.1

(1.2 – 3.7)

 Generalized anxiety disorder

2.2

(1.4 – 3.4)

1.2

(0.7 – 1.9)

 Social anxiety disorder

2.2

(1.6 – 3.1)

1.5

(1.1 – 2.2)

 Specific phobia

1.7

(1.4 – 2.1)

1.5

(1.2 – 1.9)

 Panic disorder

1.6

(1.1 – 2.3)

0.9

(0.6 – 1.5)

 Agoraphobia

1.7

(1.2 – 2.5)

1.3

(0.8 – 1.9)

 Alcohol use disorder

1.5

(1.1 – 2.0)

1.2

(0.9 – 1.6)

Sick leave. mental disorders

 Major depressive disorder

3.4

(2.4 – 4.8)

2.4

(1.6 – 3.7)

 Dysthymia

4.6

(1.7 – 12.3)

1.8

(0.6 – 5.2)

 Generalized anxiety disorder

5.8

(3.0 – 11.2)

2.2

(1.1 – 4.6)

 Social anxiety disorder

2.7

(1.5 – 4.7)

1.2

(0.7 – 2.3)

 Specific phobia

1.7

(1.2 – 2.3)

1.2

(0.8 – 1.8)

 Panic disorder

3.9

(2.1 – 7.3)

1.6

(0.6 – 4.3)

 Agoraphobia

2.9

(1.7 – 5.1)

1.3

(0.5 – 3.5)

 Alcohol use disorder

2.1

(1.2 – 3.7)

1.3

(0.7 – 2.3)

Sick leave. somatic disorders

 Major depressive disorder

1.2

(0.6 – 1.7)

1.0

(0.7 – 1.4)

 Dysthymia

1.9

(0.7 – 4.8)

1.6

(0.6 – 4.2)

 Generalized anxiety disorder

1.1

(0.5 – 2.1)

0.7

(0.3 – 1.5)

 Social anxiety disorder

2.0

(1.3 – 3.3)

1.8

(1.1 – 2.9)

 Specific phobia

2.0

(1.5 – 2.7)

1.9

(1.4 – 2.7)

 Panic disorder

0.8

(0.4 – 1.4)

0.6

(0.3 – 1.2)

 Agoraphobia

1.2

(0.7 – 2.0)

1.0

(0.6 – 1.8)

 Alcohol use disorder

1.4

(0.9 – 2.2)

1.2

(0.8 – 2.0)

  1. Note: Relative risk (RR) for being at sick leave on a given workday. All results are adjusted for sex, age, and parental education. Each disorder is adjusted for all the other disorders in the adjusted results. Confidence intervals (CI) with robust estimation. All-cause sick leave includes sick leave granted for mental and somatic disorders, as well as sick leaves where diagnosis was not available from the registries, but excludes pregnancy related sick leave. N = 2,178