TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Emotional demands at work and risk of hospital-treated depressive disorder in up to 1.6 million Danish employees: a prospective nationwide register-based cohort study
JO  - Scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
A1  - Madsen, Ida E. H.
A1  - Sørensen, Jeppe Karl
A1  - Bruun, Julie Eskildsen
A1  - Framke, Elisabeth
A1  - Burr, Hermann
A1  - Melchior, Maria
A1  - Sivertsen, Børge
A1  - Stansfeld, Stephen
A1  - Kivimaki, Mika
A1  - Rugulies, Reiner
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVE: Previous studies on effects of emotional demands on depression have relied on self-reported exposure data and lacked control for potential confounding by pre-employment risk factors for depression. This study used a register-based design to examine the risk of hospital-treated depressive disorder in relation to occupational levels of emotional demands at work, furthermore addressing the role of risk factors for depression before workforce entry. <br><br>METHODS: We analyzed data from two Danish register-based cohorts - Job Exposure Matrix Analyses of Psychosocial Factors and Healthy Ageing in Denmark (JEMPAD, N= 1 665 798) (17) and Danish Work Life Course Cohort (DaWCo, N=939 411), which link assessments of emotional demands by job exposure matrices to records of hospital-treated depressive disorder among employees aged 15-59 years at baseline (average follow up: 9.7 years in JEMPAD, 7.3 years in DaWCo). Potential confounders comprised sociodemographics, job control, work-related violence and physical demands at work. In DaWCo, we followed individuals from their entry into the workforce, and also included data on risk factors for depression before workforce entry (eg, parental income, education, and psychiatric diagnoses). <br><br>RESULTS: Employees in occupations with high emotional demands had an increased risk of hospital-treated depressive disorder with confounder-adjusted hazard ratios of 1.32 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.24‒1.41] and 1.19 (95% CI 1.09‒1.30) in JEMPAD and DaWCO, respectively. This association remained after controlling for risk factors before workforce entry. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that employees in occupations with high emotional demands are at increased risk of hospital-treated depressive disorder. This increased risk was neither attributable to reporting bias nor explained by the included risk factors for depression recorded before workforce entry.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0355-3140
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.4020
ID  - ref1
ER  -