Working overtime work may lead to depression

by Sunita Kumar

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Working overtime work may lead to depression

People who work 11 hours are twice as likely to suffer depression. In simple words, too much overtime or working long hours doubles your depression odds, confirmed in recently published scientific study. Workers who spend long hours at the office are more than twice as likely to develop depression as those who do a standard day.

The odds of a major depressive episode are more than double for those working 11 or more hours a day compared to those working seven to eight hours a day, according to a report is published in the Jan_25 issue of the journal PLoS ONE.

The authors, led by Marianna Virtanen of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and University College London, followed about 2000 middle aged British civil servants and found a robust association between overtime work and depression. This correlation was not affected when the analysis was adjusted for various possible confounders, including socio-demographics, lifestyle, and work-related factors.

There have been a number of previous studies on the subject, with varying results, but the researchers emphasize that it is hard to compare results across these studies because the cut-off for "overtime" work has not been standardized.

"Although occasionally working overtime may have benefits for the individual and society, it is important to recognize that working excessive hours is also associated with an increased risk of major depression", says Dr Virtanen.

Citation: Virtanen M, Stansfeld SA, Fuhrer R, Ferrie JE, Kivimaški M (2012) Overtime Work as a Predictor of Major Depressive Episode: A 5-Year Follow-Up of the Whitehall II Study. PLoS ONE


(Sunita Kumar -- sub-editor compiled and published Working overtime work may lead to depression at HealthNewsTrack on January 26, 2012 sourced from Public Library of Science - http://www.plos.org/)

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Depression, also known as depressive disorders or unipolar depression, is a mental illness characterized by a profound and persistent feeling of sadness or despair and/or a loss of interest in things that once were pleasurable. Disturbance in sleep, appetite, and mental processes are a common accompaniment.


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