Employment

How is employment related to PTSD?

Employment status is often indicative of the extent of one’s functional ability. Employment outcomes involve rates of employment and success in retaining employment, as well as patient characteristics, their environments, and interventions that influence employment rates.

What is the evidence for employment in people with PTSD?

Moderate to low quality evidence finds lower rates of returning to work in people with post-injury PTSD than in people without post-injury PTSD.

August 2021

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Last updated at: 5:46 am, 11th October 2021
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