Abstract

TREVISAN, Rafaela Luiza et al. Prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders in public servants away from work. Psicol. pesq. [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.2, pp. 61-80. ISSN 1982-1247.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34019/1982-1247.2019.v13.23845.

Mood and anxiety disorders out as causes of absenteeism-disease. The objective of this article was to verify the association between socio demographic and occupational variables with the prevalence of these disorders, in the population of public servants in Santa Catarina. It is a quantitative research with a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical approach. It was verified that 19.31% of the total number of servers (8,765 cases) were on leave health treatment, at least once in the analyzed period (2010-2013). Mood disorders and anxiety disorders presented respectively prevalence of 11.08% e 7.62%. In these groups, there was an association with gender, age, marital status, schooling, salary range and length of service. The results indicate the possibility of identifying socio demographic and occupational predictors of these mental disorders in this population.

Keywords : Public servants; Mental disorders; Absenteeism-disease.

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