Medical News Today reports on findings published in the journal Occupational Medicine that resuming work can actually aid recovery and help depressed employees.
However, the Society of Occupational Medicine warned that employers need to be sensitive and consider a range of interventions including changing an employees tasks and reducing hours to help people when they return to work. Line managers also play a key role as an early return to work is aided by line managers keeping in touch at least once every two weeks.
The study followed more than 500 people who were unable to work with depression from a variety of industries over the course of a year. A return to employment significantly promoted recovery. Importantly, it was the approach and flexibility of their employers that proved vital.
The study echoes the findings of Dame Carol Black’s Review ‘Working for a healthier tomorrow’ which recognized that for most people work is good both for their long-term health and for their family’s well-being. The review found that ill health was costing the country £100 billion a year – £40 billion of which was related to mental health.Â
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With greater accessibility to the Internet, many patients are well-informed consumers when they enter a doctor’s office for treatment. But, according to a researcher at Miami University, easier access to information may still not lead to easier communication with their physicians.
M. Cameron Hay-Rollins, assistant professor of anthropology at Miami University, studied 120 rheumatology patients during their first visits to a new doctor. Patients were surveyed before their appointments regarding online research of their symptoms and suspected condition, and after their appointments regarding their visit. [continue reading…]
Socializing with friends and family can do more than lift the spirits of elderly women — it can improve cognition and might help prevent dementia, according to a new study.
The study began in 2001 and included women at least 78 years old who were free of signs of dementia. Researchers conducted follow-up interviews between 2002 and 2005. [continue reading…]
Our relationship with objects is multilayered and often very emotional, and this is expressed in the way we shop. Swedish ethnologist Erik Ottoson of Uppsala University has studied the way we look for things in shopping malls, town centres and flea markets, and even in skips.
“Being a consumer sometimes means fantasising and dreaming about objects, and this is boosted when we come face to face with things that arouse various feelings of attraction and resistance,” says Ottoson, who has researched the way we look for things we want to acquire. [continue reading…]
