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Managerial Quality and Risk of Depressive Disorders Among Danish Eldercare Workers: A Multilevel Cohort Study
Reiner Rugulies1, Louise M Jakobsen, Ida E H Madsen
1National Research Centre for the Working Environment (Dr Rugulies, Dr Jakobsen, Dr Madsen, Dr Borg, Dr Aust); Department of Public Health (Dr Rugulies); Department of Psychology (Dr Rugulies), University of Copenhagen; The Danish National Archives (Dr Carneiro), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Objective:
To examine whether low managerial quality predicts risk of depressive disorders.
Methods:
Using multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression analyses we examined the prospective association of individual-level and workplace-mean managerial quality with onset of depressive disorders among 5244 eldercare workers from 274 workplaces during 20 months follow-up.
Results:
Low managerial quality predicted onset of depressive disorders in both the individual-level (odds ratio [OR] = 1.85, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.25 to 2.76) and the workplace-mean analysis (OR = 1.48, 95% CI = 1.06 to 2.07). Low individual-level managerial quality predicted onset of depressive disorders when workplace-mean managerial quality was high (OR = 3.10, 95% CI = 1.71 to 5.62) but not when it was low (OR = 1.07, 95% CI = 0.61 to 1.87). This interaction was statistically significant (P = 0.03).
Conclusions:
Both low individual-level and low workplace-mean managerial quality predicted risk of depressive disorders. The association was strongest among individuals reporting low managerial quality at workplaces with high workplace-mean managerial quality.
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