Published Articles
Absenteeism and Productivity at Work: Losses with Depression
Kessler, R.C., Akiskal H.S., Ames, M et all. Prevalence and Effects of Mood Disorders on Work Performance in a nationally representative sample of U.S. Workers American Journal of Psychiatry 163: 1561-1568. 2006.
Steward, W.F., Ricci, J.A., Chee, E. et al.. Cost of lost productive work time among US workers with depression. JAMA 2003; 289:3135-3144.
Depression Treatments that Improve Absenteeism and Productivity at Work
Rost, K.M., Smith, J.L., and Dickinson, M. The effect of improving primary care depression management on employee absenteeism and productivity: A randomized trial. Medical Care 2004; 42, 1202 – 1210.
Lo Sasso, A.T., Rost, K.M., Beck A. Modeling the impact of enhanced depression treatment on workplace functioning and cost-benefit approach. Medical Care, 2006; 44, 352-358.
Schoenbaum M., Unutzer J. and Sherourne C., et al. Cost effectiveness of practice–initiated quality improvement for depression. JAMA 2001; 286: 1325–1330.
Rost, K.M., Xu, S., Dong, F., and Dickinson, L.M. Stakeholder benefit from Depression Care Management (working paper available from cardinalconsult@comcast.net).
Depression can have a debilitating effect on the productivity and morale in the workforce... but it can be successfully treated.
