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Study: Job Strain, Depression and Burnout

Finnish researchers have found a correlation between job strain and depression, says a study published in this month's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Questioning 3,270 workers, researchers found that high job strain was the biggest risk factor for depression and job burnout, defined as "a state of exhaustion combined with doubts about the value of one's own work and competence". Workers with high levels of job strain were 3.8 times as likely to report depressive symptoms and 70 percent more likely to score as clinically depressed. They were also 7.4 times as likely to be burned out.

Findings suggest that job burnout may be a precursor to depression.

ABSTRACT: Contribution of Burnout to the Association Between Job Strain and Depression: the Health 2000 Study.

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