title: Workplace performance effects from chronic depression and its treatment.
abstract: Utilizing data from a clinical trial and an econometric model incorporating the impact of a medical intervention and regression to the mean, we present evidence supporting the hypotheses that for chronically depressed individuals: (i) the level of perceived at-work performance is negatively related to the severity of depressive status; and (ii) a reduction in depressive severity improves the patient's perceived work performance. Improvement in work performance is rapid, with about two-thirds of the change occurring already by week 4. Those patients having the greatest work improvement are those with both relatively low baseline work performance and the least severity of baseline depression.
authors: MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. eberndt@mit.edu
authors: E R
authors: ER
authors: Berndt
authors: S N
authors: SN
authors: Finkelstein
authors: P E
authors: PE
authors: Greenberg
authors: R H
authors: RH
authors: Howland
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Keith
authors: A J
authors: AJ
authors: Rush
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Russell
authors: M B
authors: MB
authors: Keller
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003863:Depression / Q000191:economics / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D004526:Efficiency; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D017059:Models, Econometric; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace