Posted on 02/09/2010 5:06:55 PM PST by decimon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Workers with depression stay home sick more often than healthy colleagues, even when their disease is treated, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Tuesday.
The report, commissioned by drug maker Sanofi Aventis, suggests that employers would benefit from better treatments of their workers for depression. Depression is the leading cause of disability among Americans aged 15 to 44, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
"Even when depressed patients are treated with antidepressants, there are substantial productivity losses. Therapies that can better manage depression may provide opportunities for savings to employers," the Thomson Reuters research team wrote in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
"Despite the widely acknowledged effectiveness of antidepressant therapy, productivity costs related to depression persist even after patients receive treatment," Suellen Curkendall, director of outcomes research at Thomson Reuters, said in a statement.
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De pressing issue ping.
Disease Etiology: Democrats have created massive economic depression, which in turn creates widespread emotional depression.
The Prescription: Vote Republican and call me in the morning.
Stop depression by hiring laundry works to iron your clothes.
Looks interesting but I like keeping things simple. Carrots and sticks. Reward productive behavior and punish destructive behavior. I've too often seen, and suffered, precisely the opposite.
Cut my taxes and increase my freedoms to promote myself by removing the harness of government control and as an individual my depression will dissipate exponentially.
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