Table 1.
Characteristics of studies addressing psychiatric disorders and prescription of antidepressive medicine. [NA=not available; RR=relative risk.]
| Author and country | Population | Follow-up | Exposure ascertainment | Outcome | Outcome ascertainment | Outcome prevalence in the reference group | Comparison | RR | 95% CI | Report completion (0–8) | Bias score 0–5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wieclaw et al 2006, Denmark (2) | Patients from the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register (N=14 166) and matched controls (age, sex and time) from Statistics Denmark’s Integrated Database for Labor Market Research (N=58 060) | 12 months | Job exposure matrix | Affective disorders (F30–39) | Register data, hospital records | NA | Threats men (0% as reference): | 8 | 2 | ||
| 0–20% | 1.07 | 0.96–1.19 | |||||||||
| >20% | 1.17 | 0.92–1.48 | |||||||||
| Threats women (0% as reference): | |||||||||||
| 0–20% | 1.14 | 1.04–1.26 | |||||||||
| >20% | 1.48 | 1.23–1.79 | |||||||||
| Violence men (0% as reference): | |||||||||||
| 0–14% | 1.03 | 0.90–1.18 | |||||||||
| >14% | 1.45 | 1.27–1.65 | |||||||||
| Violence women (0% as reference): | |||||||||||
| 0–14% | 1.25 | 1.03–1.23 | |||||||||
| >14% | 1.48 | 1.18–1.86 | |||||||||
| Geiger-Brown et al 2007, USA (48) a | Home care workers Wave 1 (N=1643) Wave 2 (N=1198). Response rate 88% | 6 months | Telephone interview, five questions about the level of violence | Depression | Revised Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (RCES-D) 20 items | 6.6 % | Threats vs none: | 3.74 | 0.82–17.12 | 8 | 2 |
| Violence vs none: | 7.29 | 0.78–68.24 | |||||||||
| Both threats and violence: | 10.8 | 3.87–30.19 | |||||||||
| Madsen et al 2011, Denmark (47) a | Random sample of the working-age population in Denmark (N=15 246) Response rate 60–80% | 3.5 years | Self-administered questionnaire and interviews, two questions | Anti-depressants | Register of Medicinal Products Statistics | Anti-depressiva 4.1% | Violence yes vs no: | 1.38 | 1.09–1.75 | 8 | 1 |
| Dement et al 2014, USA (39) a | Nurses, nurses’ aides, police officers, security workers (N=9884) | 6 years | Register, (workers compensation claims, incident reports, and OSHA logs). | Prescriptions for anti-depression or anti-anxiety drugs/ register | National Drug Codes (NDC) contained within the line-item pharmacy claims | Anti-depressiva and anxiolytics 14.8% | Reporting an incident vs not: | 8 | 1 | ||
| Male | 1.39 | 0.88–2.21 | |||||||||
| Female | 1.51 | 1.03–2.22 | |||||||||
a
Cohort study.