Workers' compensation. A psychiatric follow-up study.
In a follow-up survey of 106 settled workers' compensation cases which involved some degree of psychiatric impairment, there was found to be a high prevalence of cases in which the settlement correlated with no improvement in the patient's subjective feelings of well-being, and no improvements in employment status. There was also a large percentage of cases in which the individual continued to operate at a less adaptive level of functioning, as judged by the evaluating clinician.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*; D014942:Workers' Compensation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*