Rehabilitation of mental illness and chronic pain – the impact on sick leave and health

Pathric Hägglund (), Per Johansson and Lisa Laun
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Pathric Hägglund: Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate (ISF), Postal: Stockholm, Sweden

No 2015:22, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: This paper exploits a government initiative to analyze the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals with mild or moderate mental illness and multidisciplinary treatment (MDT) for individuals with pain in back and shoulders. We employ a propensity score matching approach to study the effects on sick leave, health care consumption and drug prescriptions. We find that CBT improved health and prevented sick leave for individuals who were not on sick leave when treatment was initiated but had no effect for individuals who were on sick leave when the treatment was initiated. MDT was a failure regardless of the individual’s sick leave status at the time of treatment. MDT increased sick leave while having no long term impact on either health care visits or drug prescriptions.

Keywords: Mental diseases; chronic pain; sick leave; propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H43 I13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2015-10-05
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