Promoting Reemployment and Mental Health Among the Unemployed

2015 ◽  
pp. 171-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amiram D. Vinokur ◽  
Richard H. Price
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
The Unemployed

scholarly journals Socioeconomic gradients and mental health: implications for public health

2015 ◽  
Vol 206 (6) ◽  
pp. 461-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stewart-Brown ◽  
Preshila Chandimali Samaraweera ◽  
Frances Taggart ◽  
Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala ◽  
Saverio Stranges
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Odds Ratios ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Mental Well Being

BackgroundResearch on mental well-being is relatively new and studies of its determinants are rare.AimsTo investigate whether the socioeconomic correlates of mental well-being mirror those for mental illness.MethodUsing logistic regression analyses, the independent odds ratios of high and low mental well-being, compared with middle-range mental well-being, were estimated for a number of sociodemographic variables known to be associated with mental illness from 13 983 participants in the 2010 and 2011 Health Surveys for England.ResultsIndependent odds ratios for low mental well-being were as expected from studies of mental illness with increased odds for the unemployed (OR = 1.46, 95% CI 1.01–2.10) and those aged 35–54 years (OR = 1.58, 95% CI 1.35–1.84) and reduced odds for the married (OR = 0.78, 95% CI 0.62–0.97). A linear trend was observed with education and equivalised income. Odds ratios for high mental well-being differed from those for low mental well-being with regard to age (55+ years: OR = 1.48, 95% CI 1.23–1.79); employment status where there was an association only with retirement (OR = 1.35, 95% CI 1.09–1.69); education where there was no association; and equivalised income for which the association was non-linear.ConclusionsOdds ratios for low mental well-being mirrored those for mental illness, but not those for high mental well-being, suggesting that the socioeconomic factors associated with positive mental health are different from those associated with mental illness.

A Profile of Patients Seen by Fly-in Clinical Psychologists at a Non-Urban Facility and Implications for Training and Future Services

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony L. Pillay ◽  
Molelekoa J. Kometsi ◽  
Evy-Terressah B. Siyothula
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Secondary School Education ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Outlying Area

With the serious mental health services deficits in non-urban communities, there is a need to evolve alternative approaches to facilitate access to care. Considering clinical psychology services are largely concentrated in the metropolitan areas, we describe a relatively unusual approach to providing services in an outlying area. The majority of patients attended to in this service are children and adolescents, and most patients have less than secondary-school education. The commonest diagnoses are mental retardation, mood and anxiety disorders, with the last two conditions mainly found in scholars and the unemployed. Fractured families are almost the norm, with four out of five children living with only one or no parents. Over half the patients are from families receiving a state grant. The majority of patients travel great distances to get to the clinical psychologists. The findings point to the need for clinical psychologists to seriously consider developing newer models for providing care, and the need for working outside of traditional approaches.

scholarly journals No evidence of increase in suicide in Greece during the first wave of Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotiris Vandoros ◽  
Olga Theodorikakou ◽  
Kyriakos Katsadoros ◽  
Dimitra Zafeiropoulou ◽  
Ichiro Kawachi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Interrupted Time Series Analysis ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Suicide Hotline ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractBackground and ObjectiveMental health outcomes have reportedly worsened in several countries during the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. In the present study we examined whether suicides increased in Greece during the first wave of the pandemic.MethodsWe used daily suicide estimates from a Suicide Observatory in Greece from 2015-2020 and followed three methodologies: A descriptive approach, an interrupted time series analysis, and a differences-in-differences econometric model.ResultsWe did not find any empirical evidence of any increase in suicides during the first wave of Covid-19 and the lockdown in any of the three approaches used.ConclusionsSuicides did not seem to increase during the first wave of covid-19 and lockdown in Greece. However, this does not mean that mental health did not deteriorate, or that we will not observe an increase in suicides during the second wave. Protective factors for Greece during the first wave may include working from home (for those able to tele-work), strong family ties, advertising of a suicide hotline and income support for the unemployed.

scholarly journals The interplay between national and parental unemployment in relation to adolescent life satisfaction in 27 countries: analyses of repeated cross-sectional school surveys

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klara Johansson ◽  
Solveig Petersen ◽  
Björn Högberg ◽  
Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens ◽  
Bart De Clercq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Interaction Terms ◽  
Parental Unemployment ◽  
Adolescent Life Satisfaction ◽  
Multilevel Linear Regression ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Background Previous research shows that parental unemployment is associated with low life satisfaction in adolescents. It is unclear whether this translates to an association between national unemployment and adolescent life satisfaction, and whether such a contextual association is entirely explained by parental unemployment, or if it changes as a function thereof. For adults, associations have been shown between unemployment and mental health, including that national unemployment can affect mental health and life satisfaction of both the employed and the unemployed, but to different degrees. The aim of this paper is to analyse how national unemployment levels are related to adolescent life satisfaction, across countries as well as over time within a country, and to what extent and in what ways such an association depends on whether the individual’s own parents are unemployed or not. Methods Repeated cross-sectional data on adolescents’ (aged 11, 13 and 15 years, n = 386,402) life satisfaction and parental unemployment were collected in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey, in 27 countries and 74 country-years, across 2001/02, 2005/06 and 2009/10 survey cycles. We linked this data to national harmonised unemployment rates provided by OECD and tested their associations using multilevel linear regression, including interaction terms between national and parental unemployment. Results Higher national unemployment rates were related to lower adolescent life satisfaction, cross-sectionally between countries but not over time within countries. The verified association was significant for adolescents with and without unemployed parents, but stronger so in adolescents with unemployed fathers or both parents unemployed. Having an unemployed father, mother och both parents was in itself related to lower life satisfaction. Conclusion Living in a country with higher national unemployment seems to be related to lower adolescent life satisfaction, whether parents are unemployed or not, although stronger among adolescents where the father or both parents are unemployed. However, variation in unemployment over the years did not show an association with adolescent life satisfaction.

scholarly journals Restructuring of a Textile Manufacturing Company and Workers’ Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Draksler ◽  
Nataša Dernovšček Hafner ◽  
Niko Arnerić ◽  
Metoda Dodič Fikfak
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
R Package ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Textile Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Cardiac Disorders ◽  
The Unemployed

Organizational restructuring is associated with greater mortality and morbidity of the workers affected by it. We examined the quality of workers’ health at a textile manufacturing company after restructuring, comparing three groups of workers: workers who remained (survivors), workers who lost their jobs and later found new jobs (the reemployed), and unemployed workers. A total of 1046 workers participated in a telephonic survey. The data were processed using SPSS and the R package version 1.2 of prLogistic. The differences between groups were calculated using the chi-square test and adjusted prevalence ratios. The comparison between the three groups shows significantly poorer mental health of the unemployed, who more often than survivors and the reemployed reported depression, as well as significant differences in elevated blood pressure, cholesterol level, and cardiac disorders. The reemployed, who were nonetheless in better health compared to the unemployed, reported poor mental health or depression more often in comparison to survivors. Higher morbidity of the unemployed and reemployed could be influenced by numerous factors associated with restructuring.

scholarly journals Mental health among the unemployed and the unemployment rate in the municipality

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 799-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattias Strandh ◽  
Mehmed Novo ◽  
Anne Hammarström
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
The Unemployed

scholarly journals EVALUATING THE FEASIBILITY AND EFFICACY OF A PILOT INTERVENTION TARGETING UNEMPLOYED OLDER WORKERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S131-S131
Author(s):  
Jie Yang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Time Structure ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Pilot Intervention ◽  
The Unemployed

Abstract The great recession of 2007–2009 has led to historically high unemployment rates, and almost half of the unemployed population was long-term unemployed in 2010. Both discriminations against the long-term unemployed and ageism hinders older unemployed workers reentering the workforce, and they risk severe mental health deterioration. However, traditional job training programs are shown to be ineffective in protecting their participants’ mental health. Hence, adopting Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory, the author worked with a non-profit in the Greater Boston area on developing an innovative intervention targeting older unemployed older workers’ mental health and income generation outcomes. The pilot intervention (lasting three months) created a quasi-office environment where participants can have a time structure, engage with peers, work on projects, and receive training. The current study evaluates the effect of this pilot program on multiple mental health outcomes. Pre-and-post comparisons were conducted using quantitative analysis (N=13). Participants’ depressive symptoms dropped significantly, and they reported having a better time structure of the day as well as higher scores in extraversion in terms of personality change. Qualitative analyses were conducted to analyze the pre-and-post interviews. Participants reported overwhelming approval of the intervention in helping them better cope with unemployment and being productive in seeking jobs or generating incomes. One example of quotes is “…compared to three months ago, I’m in a very different place. Before the Collaboratory, I had become extremely depressed and withdrawn…The Collaboratory has helped make a massive difference in my sense of well being right now.”

Chômage et santé mentale*

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 798-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Sasseville ◽  
Et Frédéric Grunberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Supportive Interventions ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Unemployed

Evidence linking unemployment with psychiatric morbidity is available since the thirties, but it is only in the seventies that a renewed research interest on this subject took place. Two research strategies seem to be emerging: an “ecological” approach establishing correlations between economical and health indicators for a given population. Another approach focuses on the psychiatric morbidity of samples of individuals who have lost their job compared to matched control groups of individuals still employed. Many of those studies did not limit themselves on the mental health of the unemployed but on the “rippling” effect of unemployment on the family and community. Many aspects of the consequences of unemployment on mental health remain to be explored such as the effects of long-term unemployment, unemployment among women. Methods of emotional supportive interventions for the unemployed need also to be explored. Furthermore the effects of a high level of unemployment on the programs of deinstitutionalization of the chronic mentally ill as well as the mentally handicapped should be evaluated.

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