Work and family roles and the association with depressive and anxiety disorders: Differences between men and women

Plaisier, Inger; Bruijn, J.G.M. de; Smit, Jan; Graaf, Ron de; Have, Margreet ten; Beekman, Aartjan T.F.; Dyck, Richard van; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2007.04.010

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“…In 75% of the participants, improvements in symptoms of psychological stress, including anxiety, were observed [25]. Other studies have confirmed positive effects of a supportive environment on anxiety [26,27]. …”

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A Telephone- and Text Message-Based Telemedicine Concept for Patients with Mental Health Disorders: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Berg

Grabe

Baumeister

et al. 2015

Psychother Psychosom

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Background: A telemedicine care concept based on telephone contacts and individualized text messages was developed for patients with mental disorders to continue treatment after therapy in a psychiatric day hospital. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the telemedicine interventions. Methods: The study had a 3-armed, randomized design with 2 intervention arms (intervention 1: telephone contacts; intervention 2: telephone contacts and short text messages; both took place over a period of 6 months and in addition to usual care), and a control group with usual care. Primary outcomes were 18-item Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI-18) scores for anxiety, depression and somatization. All participants were recruited from psychiatric day hospitals. The study was registered in the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS00000662). Results: 113 participants were analyzed 6 months after starting the intervention. The average BSI-18 anxiety score after 6 months was -2.04 points lower in intervention group 2 than in the control group (p value: 0.042). The difference in BSI depression score between these two groups was marginally significant (p value: 0.1), with an average treatment effect of -1.73. In an exploratory sensitivity analysis restricted to the 75% of patients with the highest symptom scores at baseline, intervention group 1 yielded a significant effect for anxiety and depression compared to the control group (p = 0.036 and 0.046, respectively). Conclusions: Telemedicine provides a novel option in psychiatric ambulatory care with statistically significant effects on anxiety. A positive tendency was observed for depression, especially in cases with higher symptom load at baseline.

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A Telephone- and Text Message-Based Telemedicine Concept for Patients with Mental Health Disorders: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

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Baumeister

et al. 2015

Psychother Psychosom

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“…Thus, men may benefit more from protective working conditions than women. Furthermore, the importance of organizational justice for men may reflect the importance of the work role for men's mental health, as suggested by Plaisier et al (43) who found that paid employment was strongly associated with a reduced prevalence of depression and anxiety among men but not women.…”

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A multi-wave study of organizational justice at work and long-term sickness absence among employees with depressive symptoms

Hjarsbech¹,

Christensen²,

Bjørner³

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Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…8,9 However, crosssectional and longitudinal population-based studies on young and midlife adults established the primacy of the subjective role experience (role quality) over the role quantity. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Midlife is a time of changes in roles (e.g., children grow and leave home, elderly parents are less able to care for themselves) that may have an impact on mental health and social functioning.…”

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“…Previous population-based studies of midlife women have examined the impact of roles on mental health with respect to depression and anxiety disorders, 14,15 depressive symptoms alone, 11 general health measures, 15 psychologic distress, 19 or general measures of psychologic well-being 20 but have not addressed the impact of roles on both psychologic symptoms and social functioning in the same sample. Furthermore, previous studies have not accounted for the potential impact of female midlife-specific factors, such as vasomotor symptoms that are experienced by the majority of U.S. midlife women 21 and influence well-being.…”

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Role Stress, Role Reward, and Mental Health in a Multiethnic Sample of Midlife Women: Results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)

Scalea

Matthews

Avis

et al. 2012

Journal of Women's Health

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Background: Little is known about the independent associations of reward and stress within specific roles with multiple measures of mental health in an ethnically diverse community sample of midlife women. The objective of this study is to examine if (1) role reward (within each role and across roles) contributes directly to mental health and buffers the negative impact of role stress and (2) associations among role occupancy, role stress, and role reward and mental health vary by race/ethnicity. Methods: With separate logistic regression analysis, we investigated cross-sectional relationships between role stress and role reward with presence/absence of high depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale [CES-D ‡ 16]), anxiety symptoms (feeling tense or nervous, irritable or grouchy, fearful for no reason, and heart pounding or racing total score ‡ 4), or low social functioning (bottom 25th percentile of the Short-Form-36 [SF-36] social functioning subscale) in 2549 women participating in the third visit of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a longitudinal population-based study of menopause. Results: High reward across roles attenuated the negative impact of role stress on social functioning but not on anxiety or depression. High reward marriage buffered the impact of marital stress on depression, and high reward mothering buffered the effect of maternal stress on depression and social functioning. Compared to Caucasians, Hispanics and Chinese with high stress across roles had better social functioning, and African American mothers had lower odds of high depressive symptoms. Conclusions: Role reward buffers the negative impact of stress on social functioning and depression, but not on anxiety. Minorities may respond to role stress by seeking social support.

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Work and family roles and the association with depressive and anxiety disorders: Differences between men and women

Cited by 86 publications

References 36 publications

A Telephone- and Text Message-Based Telemedicine Concept for Patients with Mental Health Disorders: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

A Telephone- and Text Message-Based Telemedicine Concept for Patients with Mental Health Disorders: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

A multi-wave study of organizational justice at work and long-term sickness absence among employees with depressive symptoms

Role Stress, Role Reward, and Mental Health in a Multiethnic Sample of Midlife Women: Results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)

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