Mental health-related sickness absences in parents of children with mental disorders or neurodevelopmental conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Having a child with a psychiatric diagnosis is associated with parents' greater risk of subsequent mental disorders but no immediate change in their annual labour market metrics. This discrepancy could be explained by shorter absences from work. We examined first-time psychiatric sickness absences in parents whose children have psychiatric diagnoses.

Methods

Using several linked nationwide Finnish registers, in this cohort study we examined time to first psychiatric sickness absence in parents whose children were born in 2001-2012 (early-childhood-onset diagnoses) or 2005-2016 (late-childhood-onset diagnoses). Exposure was having a child with a psychiatric diagnosis. Follow-up started when the parent's eldest turned 1 (early-childhood-onset diagnoses) or 5 (late-childho

SUBMITTER: Gutvilig M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12722188 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature