The calculator goes through several steps to calculate the amount of time and money lost due to depression:
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Based on your input of your company’s size, type of industry, location, and the age/gender breakdown, the model estimates the prevalence of depression in your company. |
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Using a range of workdays missed per year due to depression, total daily compensation (wages and benefits) for employees in your company, and an estimate of depressed employees’ additional direct medical costs, the model graphically presents annualized estimates of absenteeism, replacement costs, and direct medical costs due to depression. |
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The model uses your input or default values to estimate rates of depression diagnosis, rates of successful treatment, and treatment costs to estimate the overall savings for your company. |
You may use your own values for each of the estimates described above, but the default values provided are based on published research studies.
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