Injured workers self-reporting anxiety and depression have increased since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with numbers jumping “significantly” between 2019 and 2020 and not returning to pre-pandemic levels in 2022 when the pandemic subsided, according to an industry trends report released Tuesday by Medrisk Inc .
In 2019, 24.4% of injured workers reported having anxiety, 19.8% reported depression, and 14.8 reported symptoms of both; and in 2022, 30% reported having anxiety, 23.5% reported depression and 20.5% reported both, according to data compiled by Medrisk, which manages physical medical services for injured workers.
The report also found that injured employees who report anxiety and depression have a 7% higher utilization of physical therapy than those who did not report these conditions.
Other trends noted in the report related to aging and injured workers and higher utilization of physical therapy: injured workers age 56 and older have 21
% more physical therapy visits than those ages 18 to 55; and injured workers aged 56 and older have a 31% longer duration of total physical therapy treatment than those aged 18 to 55.Source link
