Rehabilitation of mental illness and chronic pain: The impact on sick leave and health

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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.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2015:22

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; Health Insurance, Public and Private ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Subject: mental diseases ; chronic pain ; sick leave ; propensity score matching

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hägglund, Pathric ; Johansson, Per-Olov ; Laun, Lisa
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/129390