Sitting idle without work for a month leads to depression
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SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 77/100
Evidence consistently links unemployment and lack of meaningful work to higher rates of depression and psychological distress.
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Research on Parkinson's disease shows unemployment is significantly associated with greater depressive symptoms.
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Cross-sectional analysis in Myanmar finds that unemployment is directly associated with a significantly higher likelihood of depressive symptoms.