title: Recurrence of sickness absence due to depression after returning to work at a Japanese IT company.
abstract: There have been few epidemiological studies on recurrent sickness absence due to depression after returning to work (RTW). The objective of this study was to investigate the prognosis of workers who are RTW with depression in a Japanese company. This study employed a descriptive epidemiology study design. Subjects of this study were 540 employees who worked full-time and were registered in the Health Data System and returned to work from April 2002 to March 2008 after their first leave of absence due to depression. We investigated the recurrence of sickness absence due to depression after returning to work using the Kaplan-Meier survival curve method. During the 8.5 yr follow-up period, almost half of the RTW employees experienced recurrent sickness absence. There was a steep increase in recurrent rates the first two years after RTW, and 85.2% of total recurrence of sickness absence had occurred within three years after the index episode.
authors.affiliation: Metropolitan Health Administration Center, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation, Japan.
authors.forename: Motoki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Haruyama
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Muto
authors.forename: Mikio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yuhara
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asada
authors.forename: Rika
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kato
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D062707:Return to Work / Q000523:psychology*; D018582:Sick Leave / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013685:Telecommunications