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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access published online on January 17, 2008
The European Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm132
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Severe depressive symptoms as predictor of disability pension: a 10-year follow-up study in Denmark

Ute Bültmann1,2, Karl B. Christensen1, Hermann Burr1, Thomas Lund1 and Reiner Rugulies1

1 National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
2 Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Correspondence: Dr Ute Bültmann, PhD, Department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, Building 3217, room 605, NL-9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands, tel: +31 50 363 8918, fax: +31 50 363 6251, e-mail: u.bultmann{at}med.umcg.nl

Received September 5, 2007 , accepted December 21, 2007

Are severe depressive symptoms prospectively associated with disability pension? To answer that question, we linked data from a representative sample of the Danish workforce with disability pension (DP) award data from the National Registry on Public Transfer Payments. Of the 5106 study participants, 111 employees (2.2%) received DP during the 10-year follow-up. Severe depressive symptoms, reported in 1995, predicted DP award during follow-up (adjusted hazard ratio = 2.38, 95% confidence interval 1.22–4.66). Further research is needed to understand more fully the pathway(s) from severe depressive symptoms to DP.

Keywords: depression, disability, general working population, longitudinal study, predictor


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