How Managers Find Out About Common Mental Disorders Among Their Employees. Issue 11 (November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bertilsson, Monica; Klinkhammer, Stephanie; Staland-Nyman, Carin; de Rijk, Angelique
• Is Part Of: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine. Volume 63:Issue 11(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-11
• Subjects: attitude -- common mental disorders -- managers -- mental health -- workplace prevention; Medicine, Industrial -- Periodicals; Environmental health -- Periodicals; Occupational Medicine -- Periodicals; Environmental Medicine -- Periodicals; Environmental health; Medicine, Industrial; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.9803
• DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002287
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1076-2752

Abstract

Abstract : Objective: To explore how managers find out about common mental disorders (CMDs) among employees and associations with managers' work- and knowledge-related characteristics and attitude to CMDs. Methods: Data from an online survey in 2017 with Swedish managers ( n = 1810) were used. Different ways managers find out about CMDs were measured, and multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted for associations with manager characteristics. Results: Few managers found out about CMDs themselves; another source was more common, for example, employees' self-disclosure. Managers' overseeing fewer subordinates and those with a negative attitude to depression were more likely to find out about CMDs themselves. The significance of mental health training and education could not be established. Conclusion: Managers' awareness about employees' CMDs mainly came about through employees' self-disclosure. Managers' attitudes and work conditions were related to the way of finding out.