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Mental disorders among workers in the healthcare industry: 2014 national health insurance data

Overview of attention for article published in Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, May 2018
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Title
Mental disorders among workers in the healthcare industry: 2014 national health insurance data
Published in
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40557-018-0244-x
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Min-Seok Kim, Taeshik Kim, Dongwook Lee, Ji-hoo Yook, Yun-Chul Hong, Seung-Yup Lee, Jin-Ha Yoon, Mo-Yeol Kang

Abstract

Numerous studies have shown that healthcare professionals are exposed to psychological distress. However, since most of these studies assessed psychological distress using self-reporting questionnaires, the magnitude of the problem is largely unknown. We evaluated the risks of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, and any psychiatric disorders in workers in healthcare industry using Korea National Health Insurance (NHI) claims data from 2014, which are based on actual diagnoses instead of self-evaluation. We used Korea 2014 NHI claims data and classified employees as workers in the healthcare industry, based on companies in the NHI database that were registered with hospitals, clinics, public healthcare, and other medical services. To estimate the standardized prevalence of the selected mental health disorders, we calculated the prevalence of diseases in each age group and sex using the age distribution of the Korea population. To compare the risk of selected mental disorders among workers in the healthcare industry with those in other industries, we considered age, sex, and income quartile characteristics and conducted propensity scored matching. In the matching study, workers in healthcare industry had higher odds ratios for mood disorders (1.13, 95% CI: 1.11-1.15), anxiety disorders (1.15, 95% CI: 1.13-1.17), sleep disorders (2.21, 95% CI: 2.18-2.24), and any psychiatric disorders (1.44, 95% CI: 1.43-1.46) than the reference group did. Among workers in healthcare industry, females had higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders than males, but the odds ratios for psychiatric disorders, compared to the reference group, were higher in male workers in healthcare industry than in females. The prevalence of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, and all psychiatric disorders for workers in the healthcare industry was higher than that of other Korean workers. The strikingly high prevalence of sleep disorders could be related to the frequent night-shifts in these professions. The high prevalence of mental health problems among workers in healthcare industry is alarming and requires prompt action to protect the health of the "protectors."

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Unknown 187 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 31 17%
Student > Master 27 14%
Researcher 13 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 6%
Student > Postgraduate 9 5%
Other 31 17%
Unknown 64 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 50 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 10%
Psychology 11 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 3%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Other 23 12%
Unknown 75 40%
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