Occupational and Non-occupational Injuries Can Result in Prolonged Augmentation of Psychiatric Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The long-term effects of occupational injury (OI) on psychiatric diseases are unclear. This study assessed and compared the effects of OI, no injury (control), and non-OI (NOI) on the development of psychiatric diseases.

Methods

We used Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database to investigate the incidence of psychiatric disorders in OI, NOI, and control groups. The subjects were aged 20-50 years, actively employed in 2000, and did not have history of injury or psychiatric disorders. All subjects were followed from 2000 and were classified into OI, NOI, and control groups according to occurrence of target injury later on. Individuals in each group were matched by age, sex, insurance premium before the index date, and year of the index date. Psychiatric

SUBMITTER: Chin WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8666318 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature