Objective Previous research has found that social anxiety and depression are associated with occupational impairment, including unemployment and decreased productivity. However, longitudinal studies are limited to depression and only examine effects of anxiety cross‐sectionally. Furthermore, prior studies only measured occupational impairment dichotomously as either employed or unemployed. The present secondary data analysis sought to build upon these gaps and investigate bidirectional relationships between hours worked, measured continuously, and symptoms of social anxiety and depression over the course of 48 weeks following a brief intervention for job‐seekers with social anxiety disorder, many of whom reported elevated levels of depression. Employment was operationalized as the average number of hours spent working in a given week. Methods Two cross‐lagged panel models were tested to investigate these relationships in 250 diverse job‐seeking individuals (59.2% female, 40.8% Black or

Objective Several gaps remain in the understanding of the onset, dynamic transitions, and associated risk factors of adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae (APNS) in the acute post‐trauma window. Based on serial assessments of symptoms from a large cohort study, we identified homogeneous statuses across multiple APNS symptom domains and investigated the dynamic transitions among these statuses during the first 2 months after trauma exposure. Furthermore, we studied how symptom onset and transitions are affected by equity‐relevant characteristics. Methods The analysis was based on 2557 participants enrolled in the Advancing Understanding of RecOvery afteR traumA (AURORA). APNS symptoms comprised pain, depression, sleep discontinuity, nightmares, avoidance, re‐experience, anxiety, hyperarousal, somatic symptoms, and mental fatigue. We identified the homogeneous status of APNS symptoms at baseline, 1 month, and 2 months, and explored transition probabilities among these statuses

Objective Depression often follows a recurrent or chronic course influenced by various factors. Social support is associated with depression both by quantity and quality, however, the concurrent change with depression is unclear. This study aimed to determine the trajectories of depressive symptoms and social support over 23 years as well as their interrelationship. Methods We analyzed data from 6787 participants of a Swedish population‐based cohort study at four time points and across 23 years. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Major Depression Inventory and social support was assessed with the Interview Schedule for Social Interaction. The trajectories of depressive symptoms and social support were determined using group‐based dual trajectory modeling. Multinomial logistic regression analysis assessed the association between the trajectories of depressive symptoms and social support. Results Six trajectories of depressive symptoms and three trajectories of social support we

Objective The aim of this study is to conduct a population‐level study on substance use treatment utilization among immigrants from Muslim‐majority countries (MMC) and non‐MMC, compared with Canadian‐born individuals in Ontario. Methods A population‐based, repeated measures cross‐sectional study was conducted. Additionally, individuals with at least one contact with substance use services were followed. Negative binomial models were run to compare the rate ratio of the number of repeated healthcare visits per person per year of follow‐up by subpopulation group. This study included three separate populations (Canadian‐born, immigrants from MMC, and immigrants from non‐MMC) residing in Ontario, Canada. All individuals residing in Ontario on the first day of each calendar year from January 2003 to December 2022 were included. Data were collected from three major sources: outpatient visits, emergency department visits, and inpatient hospitalizations. Results In 2022, immigrants from MMC (n