The
NSDUH Report: Depression Among Adults Employed Full-time by
Occupational Category
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(also has the data table used to construct each figure)
Highlights:
- Combined data from SAMHSA's
2004 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health were used to determine
rates of past year depressive episodes among employed adults by age,
gender, and occupational category. SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health found an annual average of 7% of full time workers aged
18 to 64 had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year.
- Differences in depression
rates were found by age, gender, and occupational category.
- Among the 21 major occupational
categories, the highest rates of past year major depressive episode
among full time employed workers aged 18 to 64 were found in the personal
care and service occupations (10.8%) and the food preparation and service
related occupations (10.3%).
- The occupational categories
with the lowest rates of major depressive episode were engineering,
architecture and surveying (4.3%); life, physical, and social science
(4.4%), and installation, maintenance, and repair (4.4%).
This Short Report, The
NSDUH Report: Depression Among Adults Employed Full-time by Occupational
Category,
is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health (NSDUH). The NSDUH is conducted by the Office
of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's survey (NSDUH) is the
primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences
of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized
population, age 12 and older.
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health
also provides estimates for drug use by State.
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