Organizational justice and disability pension from all-causes, depression and musculoskeletal diseases: A Finnish cohort study of public sector employees

Juvani, Anne; Oksanen, Tuula; Virtanen, Marianna; Elovainio, Marko; Salo, Paula; Pentti, Jaana; Kivimäki, Mika; Vahtera, Jussi

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“…One possible explanation might be that the group was rather small (n = 170); thus power problems might at least partially explain the null-finding. Also, it is possible that justice perceptions influenced health already prior to the study, so that respondents had habituated to the situation, and that stable low justice was not related to a further decline in health [19,38]. Indeed, analyses based on the full sample including those with prior prescription of antidepressants revealed an increased hazard also for participants experiencing stable low justice as well as increasing justice, suggesting that health problems and possibly low justice perceptions may have been present before inclusion in our study.…”

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“…Yet another recent study from Eib et al (2018) reported significant lagged effects from procedural justice to Notes: Reference group is group 4 (stable high) *Models 2a and 2b are adjusted for sex, age, education, socioeconomic position, marital status, insecure employment in 2010 (estimates not shown, sex and insecure employment remained significant)°M odel 1b and 2b are adjusted for all covariates as above, and also includes events from individuals in receipt of prescribed antidepressant medication in the 2 years up to 2012 depressive symptoms [19]. However, while some have used non-subjective measures of depression, mostly defined as registry-based sickness absence [41] or disability pension [38] due to diagnosed mental disorder, many of the studies looking at organizational justice and health outcomes are exposed to the risk of common method variance. By using medication registers for the outcome, the present study avoided that risk.…”

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Effects of procedural justice on prospective antidepressant medication prescription: a longitudinal study on Swedish workers

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Background: Procedural justice has been linked to several mental health problems, but most studies have used self-reported data. There exist a need to assess the link between procedural justice and health using outcomes that are not only self-reported. The aim of the current study was to examine whether perceived procedural justice at work is prospectively associated with antidepressant medication prescription. Methods: Data from 4374 participants from the Swedish Longitudinal Survey of Health (SLOSH) were linked to the Swedish National Prescribed Drug register. Based on their perceived procedural justice at two times (2010 and 2012), participants were divided into four groups: stable low, increasing, decreasing and stable high justice perceptions. Using Cox regression, we studied how the course of stability and change in perceived procedural justice affected the rate of prescription of antidepressant medication over the next 2 years. Participants with missing data and those who had been prescribed antidepressant medication in the period leading up to 2012 were excluded in the main analyses to determine incident morbidity. Results: The results showed that after adjustment for sex, age, education, socioeconomic position, marital status, and insecure employment a decrease in perceived procedural justice over time was associated with greater receipt of antidepressants compared to people with stable high perceptions of procedural justice (HR 1.76, 95% CI: 1.16 to 2.68). Being female and having insecure employment were also associated with higher hazards of antidepressant prescription. Conclusions: These findings strengthen the notion that procedural justice at work influences psychological wellbeing, as well as provide new insights into how procedural justice perceptions may affect mental health.

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Effects of procedural justice on prospective antidepressant medication prescription: a longitudinal study on Swedish workers

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“…Third, in a Finnish cohort study on public employees, relational and procedural justice were associated with reduced risk of disability pension due to depression. However, after adjusting for the effects of effort-reward imbalance and demand-control, effects lost their statistical significance (43). Finally, a Danish prospective study assessed aggregated work-unit data of procedural and relational injustice at work, related to onset of new depression over a 2-year period (44).…”

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Adverse Psychosocial Work Environments and Depression–A Narrative Review of Selected Theoretical Models

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2020

Front. Psychiatry

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Far-reaching progress of treatment and prevention of depressive disorders is still limited, mainly due to the multifactorial determinants of these disorders and the restricted knowledge of their aetiology. Stressful socio-environmental conditions represent one of the multifactorial determinants, and in view of the centrality of work and employment for human well-being, research on health-adverse psychosocial work environments turned out to be a promising line of scientific inquiry. During the past three decades, respective research focused mainly on three theoretical models of adverse psychosocial work and their measurement in prospective epidemiologic studies, termed "demand-control," "effort-reward imbalance," and "organizational injustice." This report provides a review of current evidence on their associations with depression, based on several systematic reviews and updated by most recent publications. Moreover, it discusses the conceptual and methodological strengths and weaknesses of these associations. In summary, the results of more than 40 cohort studies from a variety of Western modern societies confirm that stressful work in terms of these models is associated with a moderately increased risk of subsequent onset of depression. While this knowledge is considered robust enough to instruct efforts of primary and secondary prevention, several methodological challenges still need to be resolved by future research.

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“…Most studies focus on the health-related conditions that are linked to SCC, such as depression (47) or stress-related symptoms (burnout/exhaustion) (28). Obviously, these conditions are related to permanent WD (48,49).…”

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Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Permanent Work Disability: A Prospective Cohort Study of 7,161 Employees in Primarily Knowledge-intensive Occupations with an up to Eight-Year Follow-up

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Arola²,

Ahveninen³

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Background: Work disability (WD) is a medico-legal concept that refers to disability benefits (DB) granted due to diseases. We assessed whether subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) – presenting as self-rated difficulties of concentration, memory, clear thinking and decision making – predict permanent WD in knowledge-intensive occupations. Methods: We combined the SCC questionnaire results with reliable registry data on the DBs of 7,161 professional/managerial employees (46% females). We excluded employees who were on long-term sickness absence (SA) or had received a DB at baseline. The exposure variable was the presence of SCC. Age and SA before the questionnaire as a proxy measure of general health were treated as confounders and the analyses were conducted by gender. The outcome variable was a granted DB. The cumulative incidence function illustrates the difference between SCC categories, and the Fine-Gray model estimates the predictors of WD during the eight-year follow-up. Results: The most common primary reasons for permanent WD were mental (36%) and musculoskeletal (20%) disorders. SCC predicted DB in both genders when controlling for age and prior SA. Hazard ratios were 2.9 with a 95% confidence interval 1.4-6.0 for the females and 3.7 (1.8-7.9) for the males. After eight years, 3.1% of the females and 2.8% of the males in the abnormal SCC category had received a DB, while the respective figures in the reference category were 1.9% and 1.0%. Conclusion: Subjective cognitive complaints predict permanent WD in knowledge-intensive occupations among professional/managerial employees. This finding has implications for supporting work ability among employees with cognitively demanding tasks.

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Organizational justice and disability pension from all-causes, depression and musculoskeletal diseases: A Finnish cohort study of public sector employees

Cited by 27 publications

References 42 publications

Effects of procedural justice on prospective antidepressant medication prescription: a longitudinal study on Swedish workers

Effects of procedural justice on prospective antidepressant medication prescription: a longitudinal study on Swedish workers

Adverse Psychosocial Work Environments and Depression–A Narrative Review of Selected Theoretical Models

Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Permanent Work Disability: A Prospective Cohort Study of 7,161 Employees in Primarily Knowledge-intensive Occupations with an up to Eight-Year Follow-up

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