Bidirectional associations between workplace bullying and sickness absence due to common mental disorders - a propensity-score matched cohort study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateEthical approval was obtained for SLOSH from the Regional Ethical Review Board in Stockholm [#2012/373‐31/5, #2006/158‐31, #2008/240‐32, #2008/1808‐32, #2010/0145‐32, #2012/373‐31/5, #2013/2173‐32, #20152187, #2015/2298‐32, #2017/25‐35‐32]. All participants received written information about the purpose of SLOSH and informed consent has been obtained for each survey year. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Stockholm University. The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) supported this work (grant number 2019–01318). This work utilised data from SLOSH which is part of the REWHARD consortium supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR #2021–00154). Design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of data as well as writing and submitting the manuscript was however carried out independently by the researchers."