RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Work-unit measures of organisational justice and risk of depression—a 2-year cohort study JF Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO Occup Environ Med FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP 380 OP 385 DO 10.1136/oemed-2012-101000 VO 70 IS 6 A1 Matias Brødsgaard Grynderup A1 Ole Mors A1 Åse Marie Hansen A1 Johan Hviid Andersen A1 Jens Peter Bonde A1 Anette Kærgaard A1 Linda Kærlev A1 Sigurd Mikkelsen A1 Reiner Rugulies A1 Jane Frølund Thomsen A1 Henrik Albert Kolstad YR 2013 UL http://oem.bmj.com/content/70/6/380.abstract AB Objectives The aim of this study is to analyse if low justice at work, analysed as aggregated workplace means, increases the risk of depression. Methods A total of 4237 non-depressed Danish public employees within 378 different work units were enrolled in 2007. Mean levels of procedural and relational justice were computed for each work unit to obtain exposure measures that were robust to reporting bias related to depression. Two years later in 2009, 3047 (72%) participated at follow-up. Those reporting high levels of depressive, burn-out or stress symptoms were assigned to a psychiatric diagnostic interview. In the interview 58 cases of new onset depression were identified. Depression ORs by work unit level of procedural and relational justice were estimated by multivariable logistic regression accounting for established risk factors for depression. Results Working in a work unit with low procedural justice (adjusted ORs of 2.50, 95% CI 1.06 to 5.88) and low relational justice (3.14, 95% CI 1.37 to 7.19) predicted onset of depression. Conclusions Our results indicate that a work environment characterised by low levels of justice is a risk factor for depression.