Work-related violence and depressive disorder among 955,573 employees followed for 6.99 million person-years. The Danish Work Life Course Cohort study

Exposure to workplace violence and threats and risk of depression: a prospective study

“…The results are also in accordance with a newly published Danish study measuring exposure to violence by a JEM and the risk of depression measured by hospital treatment in registers (12). The modest association between being employed in jobs with a high likelihood of workplace violence and subsequent risk of diagnosed depression reported in this JEM study was depending on gender and industry, with robust association among women but not men.…”

“…The results from these three studies suggested an increased risk of depression after exposure to violence or threats of violence at work. Recently a Danish job exposure matrix study on violence at work and depression reported that being employed in jobs with a high likelihood of work-related violence (eg, police offices, prison guards, teachers and personal care workers) was associated with a modest risk of developing depression, measured by hospital treatment in registers ( 12 ). The study was based on an inception cohort including a large sample with more than 950 000 Danish employees followed for 6.9 million person-years.…”

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

“…Furthermore, for DaWCo, additional data were available, including information on childhood socioeconomic position, maternal and paternal psychiatric and somatic diagnoses before the cohort member entered the workforce. The choice of potential confounders was guided by existing literature indicating an increased risk of depression in relation to these factors (24)(25)(26)(27) and considerations regarding their relationship with emotional demands at work. Supplementary table S1 summarizes the measurement of potential confounders.…”

Understanding the impact of psychosocial working conditions on workers’ health: we have come a long way, but are we there yet?

“…Much criticism of psychosocial work environment research has focused on the role of potential biases related to the self-reported nature of exposure measurements in most studies on psychosocial working conditions and health, and calls have been made for studies measuring exposures objectively (26,27). While the term objective may certainly also be debated (26), we and other research groups have been making steps to meet this challenge by applying non-self-reported exposure measures (31,32), work unit aggregations (33,34) or job exposure matrices to measure working conditions (35)(36)(37). These measures also have their limita-Editorial tions.…”