Cognitive impairments in former patients with work-related stress complaints – one year later

Autor: Lars Peter Andersen, Johan Hviid Andersen, Anders Degn Pedersen, Anita Eskildsen
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Physiology
Neuropsychological Tests
050105 experimental psychology
Cohort Studies
Executive Function
Occupational Stress
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Memory
Statistical significance
Prospective memory
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Prospective Studies
Cognitive skill
Prospective cohort study
Psychiatry
Burnout
Professional
medicine.diagnostic_test
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
05 social sciences
Cognition
Neuropsychological test
Middle Aged
Psychiatry and Mental health
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Socioeconomic Factors
Sick leave
Physical therapy
Female
Self Report
Occupational stress
Sick Leave
Cognition Disorders
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Follow-Up Studies
Zdroj: Eskildsen, A, Andersen, L P, Pedersen, A D & Andersen, J H 2016, ' Cognitive impairments in former patients with work-related stress complaints-one year later ', Stress: The International Journal on the Biology of Stress, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 559-566 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10253890.2016.1222370
ISSN: 1607-8888
1025-3890
DOI: 10.1080/10253890.2016.1222370
Popis: Patients on sick leave due to work-related stress often present with cognitive impairments. The aim of this prospective cohort study was to examine the long-term consequences of prolonged work-related stress in terms of cognitive functioning one year after initial professional care seeking. We tested a group of patients with work-related stress with a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery at two occasions, one year apart. At both time points, we compared the performance of patients with healthy controls matched pairwise on sex, age and length of education. This paper presents the results from the one-year follow-up. When adjusting for practice effects, patients improved on measures of prospective memory and processing speed. However, patients continued to perform worse than controls on all tests, though only half of the comparisons reached statistical significance. The effect sizes of the differences between the two groups at one-year follow-up were small to medium. In conclusion, former patients with prolonged work-related stress improved, but they continued to perform worse than controls after one year. In the acute phase, the largest impairments were related to executive function and mental speed but at follow-up memory impairments also became apparent.
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