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Truckers health * USA - Included in study on depression
Firms should help unhappy workersCHICAGO,Ill,USA -The Associated Press/The Trucker, by LINDSEY TANNER -26 Sept 2007: -- Investing in depressed employees — quickly getting them treatment and even offering telephone psychotherapy — can cut absenteeism while improving workers' health, a study suggests... The study involved 604 white-collar and blue-collar workers at 16 large U.S. companies. Employees included pilots, lawyers, bankers, truckers and janitors... Many employers view mental health coverage as a financial black hole, but the study shows that spending money on depression is a smart business move, said researcher Dr. Philip Wang. Wang works for the National Institute of Mental Health, which funded the study... Two other co-authors are employees of United Behavioral Health, the large managed-care company involved in the study, and own stock in UBH's parent company. The research compared UBH's usual mental health coverage with the experimental telephone-based outreach program devised for the research... Because of the study's results, UBH began offering a similar program after the study ended more than a year ago...
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