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Not only may these injuries cause physical damage and disability, they may also cause mental disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate if persons with an electrical injury suffer from mental disorders in the following years.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n<jats:title>Material and methods<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>In a prospective matched cohort design, we identified 14.112 electrical injuries in two Danish registries and matched these with persons with dislocation\/sprain injuries or eye injuries, respectively, as well as with persons from the workforce from the same occupation, using year of injury, sex and age as matching variables. We identified possible outcomes in terms of mental diagnoses in the Danish National Patient registry, based on literature, including reviews, original studies and case-reports as well as experiences from clinical praxis. The associations were analyzed using conditional cox- and logistic regression.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>We found that the following of the examined outcomes were associated with exposure to an electrical injury compared to the matched controls. Some of the outcomes showed the strongest associations shortly after the injury, namely \u2018mental disorders due to known physiological condition\u2019, \u2018anxiety and adjustment disorders\u2019, and especially the \u2018Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)\u2019 subgroup. The same pattern was seen for \u2018Depression\u2019 although the associations were weaker. Other conditions took time to develop (\u2018Somatoform disorders\u2019), or were only present in the time to event analysis (\u2018other non-psychotic mental disorders\u2019 and \u2018sleep disorders\u2019). The findings were consistent in all three matches, with the highest risk estimates in the occupation match.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n<jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Electrical injuries may result in mental disorders, both acute and several years after. 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