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