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Association of stigmatizing attitudes with people's opinion of depression as a valid reason for sickness absence: A Swedish vignette study.
- Source :
- Work; 2022, Vol. 73 Issue 2, p495-504, 10p, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Diagram, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND: Depression is a common cause of sickness absence (SA) and also highly associated with stigma. Few studies have addressed the role of stigma in relation to SA. OBJECTIVE: To investigate if attitudes to depression were associated with the public's opinion of depression as a valid reason of SA. METHODS: The study population (n = 2413) originated from a web-based panel of citizens. The survey included a short vignette describing a person with symptoms of depression and the person's work tasks, followed by a question on recommendation of SA. Negative attitudes were measured by the Depression Stigma Scale. Logistic regressions were used to estimate the odds ratios (OR) for the likelihood of not recommending SA, controlling for individual and work-related co-variates. RESULTS: The crude association between negative attitudes and not recommending SA was OR 2.15 (95% CI, 1.76–2.62). In the fully adjusted model the OR was 1.76 (95% CI, 1.40 –2.21) for not recommending SA. CONCLUSIONS: Participants with negative attitudes to depression were more likely to not consider depression as a valid reason of sickness absence. The study supports theories on layered stigma; attitudes from one arena are related to other arenas. Future studies are needed to confirm our findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MENTAL depression
SICK leave
CONFIDENCE intervals
INTERNET
SOCIAL stigma
PUBLIC health
PATIENTS' attitudes
ATTITUDES toward illness
SURVEYS
CRONBACH'S alpha
PEARSON correlation (Statistics)
CASE studies
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
QUESTIONNAIRES
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
LOGISTIC regression analysis
EMPLOYMENT reentry
ODDS ratio
DATA analysis software
PUBLIC opinion
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10519815
- Volume :
- 73
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159820452
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-205181