Mental disorders in judicial workers: analysis of sickness absence in a cohort study.

Objective: To analyze risk factors for sickness absence due to mental disorders among judicial workers in Bahia, Brazil.

Methods: Retrospective cohort with follow-up from 2011 to 2016 with 2,660 workers of a judicial sector in Bahia, Brazil. The main outcome measures were survival curves estimated for the independent variables using the Kaplan-Meier product limit estimator and risk factors for the first episode of sickness absence calculated based on the Cox regression model.