Medscape Medical News: Mental health worse after workplace injuries

Patients with workplace injuries have worse mental health outcomes over time than patients with non-workplace injuries. These insights are from a recent study involving researchers in the departments of community health sciences, surgery, psychiatry and internal medicine at the Max Rady College of Medicine, and in the department of psychology at UM.

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,” said co-author Dr. Anthony Wightman, a first-year internal medicine resident at UM.

You can read the full story in Medscape Medical News.