Mental Health Expenditures: Association with Workplace Incivility and Bullying Among Hospital Patient Care Workers

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Sabbath, Erika L. ; Williams, Jessica A.R. ; Boden, Leslie I. ; Tempesti, Tommaso ; Wagner, Gregory R. ; Hopcia, Karen ; Hashimoto, Dean ; Sorensen, Glorian
• Description:
  Objective
  
  Bullied workers have poor self-reported mental health; monetary costs of bullying exposure are unknown. We tested associations between bullying and health plan claims for mental health diagnoses.
  
  Methods
  
  We used data from 793 hospital workers who answered questions about bullying in a survey and subscribed to the group health plan. We used two-part models to test associations between types of incivility/bullying and mental health expenditures.
  
  Results
  
  Workers experiencing incivility or bullying had greater odds of any mental health claims. Among claimants, unexposed workers spent $792, those experiencing one type of incivility or bullying spent $1,557 (p for difference from unexposed=0.016), those experiencing two types spent $928 (p=0.503), and those experiencing three types spent $1,446 (p=0.040).
  
  Conclusions
  
  Workplace incivility and bullying may carry monetary costs to employers, which could be controlled through work environment modification.
• Subjects:
  • Administrative Claims, Healthcare
  • Adult
  • Bullying
  • Female
  • Health Expenditures
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Incivility
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders
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• Keywords:
  • bullying
  • workplace
  • health expenditures
  • hospital personnel
  • mental health
  • health care utilization
  • health care costs
• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 60(8):737-742
• Pubmed ID:
  29538275
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6086762
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  K01 OH010673/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U19 OH008861/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  60
• Issue:
  8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/58095/cdc_58095_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 335.10 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:70a6709eb6ef9954b6cb1d52e41980f3154836ba934343b28f9635da866f5fc6