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Public Health"],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Background<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transition from traditional office-based work to remote work, but the national-level relationship between remote work and workers\u2019 mental health remains understudied.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To assess the prevalence of six mental-related health outcomes among remote-eligible working adults in the United States and examine sociodemographic and health-related disparities.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The 2023 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) adult sample data were analyzed for remote-eligible (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f5,813) and non-remote-eligible occupations (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f11,644). Participants\u2019 self-reported depression and anxiety frequency, depression and anxiety disorder, and depression and anxiety medication use. Survey-weighted ordered logistic regression and cumulative logistic regression models were used to estimate interaction effects, and potential confounders were adjusted for.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Mental health outcomes among remote-eligible- working adults varied substantially across sociodemographic groups, with obvious gaps between depression\/anxiety frequency, symptom burden, and depression\/anxiety disorders diagnosis, particularly among males, older adults, and non-Hispanic Asian remote-eligible working adults.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>With the projected aging workforce, the need for targeted screening, equitable and culturally responsive mental health care, and equitable mental health care services to address unmet mental health needs is crucial with the expanding remote-work structure.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2026.1809511","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,28]],"date-time":"2026-04-28T04:42:57Z","timestamp":1777351377000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Mental health outcomes among United States remote-eligible working adults post COVID-19: national evidence"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Muinat Abolore","family":"Idris","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston","place":["Houston, TX, United States"]},{"name":"Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at 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