Enhancing sense of coherence via early intervention among depressed occupational health care clients.

Background: Research on interventions improving psychological adjustment has suggested that sense of coherence (SOC) could be improved.

Aims: In the present study, we measured the impact of an intervention on the SOC among adults with first-episode depression. We also examined whether rehabilitation, depression, occupational stressors, life situation stressors and socio-demographic characteristics are associated with a change in the SOC.

The Impact of an Early Eclectic Rehabilitative Intervention on Symptoms in First Episode Depression among Employed People.

Objective. To evaluate the effect of an early vocational-orientated eclectic intervention on beck depression inventory (BDI) scores compared to treatment as usual in first ever depressive episode among employed people. Design.

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is common among occupational health care clients with depression.

Objective: To study how common personality disorders (PDs) are among employed subjects with first-episode depression. Depression is the single most common cause of working disability in Finland. Personality disorders are associated with depression.