Shift work and use of psychotropic medicine: a follow-up study with register linkage.

ABSTRACT: Objective This study aimed to investigate a prospective association between shift work and use of psychotropic medicine. Methods Survey data from random samples of the general working population of Denmark (N=19 259) were linked to data from national registers. Poisson regression was used for analyses of prospective associations between shift work and redeemed prescriptions of psychotropic medicine. Prevalent cases were excluded at baseline. In secondary analyses, we tested differential effects on subsets of psychotropic medicine and, cross-sectionally, we studied correspondence between estimates based on psychotropic medicine and self-reported mental health. According to the protocol we interpret results from the secondary analyses following the principles for nested hypothesis testing, i

SUBMITTER: Albertsen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8506318 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature