New Findings on Anxiety Disorders Described by Investigators at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Psychological Caring Climate At Work, Mental Health, Well-being, and Work-related Outcomes: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study and Health …): Mental Health Diseases and Conditions – Anxiety Disorders

2023 MAY 05 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Mental Health Diseases and Conditions - Anxiety Disorders is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Psychological climate for caring (PCC) is a psychosocial factor associated with individual work outcomes and employee well-being. Evidence on the impacts of various psychological climates at work is based mostly on self -reported health measures and cross-sectional data.”

Funders for this research include Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Aetna Inc., Levi Strauss Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “We provide longitudinal evidence on the associations of PCC with subsequent diagnosed depression and anxiety, subjective well-being, and self-reported work outcomes. Employees of a US organization with a worker well-being program provided data for the analysis. Longitudinal survey data merged with data from personnel files and health insurance claims records comprising medical information on diagnosis of depression and anxiety were used to regress each outcome on PCC at baseline, adjusting for prior values of all outcomes and other covariates. PCC was found to be associated with lower odds of subsequent diagnosed depression, an increase in overall well-being, mental health, physical health, social connectedness, and financial security, as well as a decrease in distraction at work, an increase in productivity/ engagement and possibly in job satisfaction. There was little evidence of associations between PCC and subse-quent diagnosed anxiety, character strengths, and work-family conflict.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Work policies focused on improving PCC may create a promising pathway to promoting employee health and well-being as well as improving work-related outcomes.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Psychological Caring Climate At Work, Mental Health, Well-being, and Work-related Outcomes: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study and Health Insurance Data. Social Science & Medicine, 2023;323. Social Science & Medicine can be contacted at: Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Social Science & Medicine - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/social-science-and-medicine/)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dept. of Environmental Health, Sustainabil & Hlth Initiat Shine, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Additional authors for this research include Piotr Bialowolski, Eileen McNeely, Matthew T. Lee, Richard G. Cowden, Ying Chen and Tyler J. VanderWeele.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115841. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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