Medscape February 28, 2025
Patients with workplace injuries have worse mental health outcomes over time than patients with non-workplace injuries, according to recent research.
In a cohort study that included more than 35,000 patients, rates of anxiety and any mental disorder were more strongly associated with injury in the workplace than injury outside the workplace.
“There’s a lot of research detailing that workplace injury leads to bad mental health outcomes, but there’s not a lot of research comparing workplace injury to injury outside of the workplace head to head,” Co-author Anthony Wightman, MD, first-year internal medicine resident at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, told Medscape Medical News. “That’s what we wanted to determine.”
The study was published online on February 13 in JAMA...
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