Does Treatment Affect Sickness Absence In Depressed Employees?

Favourable short-term outcomes for psychotherapy interventions targeted on depressive patients have been shown, but few studies have examined long-term outcomes in working populations. A group of Finnish investigators used data on recorded sickness absence as an outcome to examine psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy in a large contemporary working population (the 10-Town Study). The eligible population comprised all 67,106 employees of the local government who had been employed for at least 10 months in 1 year between 1994 and 2002.

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