Analysis of emerging psychosocial risk factors in a municipal service - working conditions beyond the obvious

Informal employment is an employment condition in which workers are not protected by labor regulations. It has been associated with poor health status in middle- and low-income countries, but it is still a neglected issue in high-income countries. Our aim was to estimate the association between health status and employment profiles in Spain, attending to the role of workplace risk factors. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 8,060 workers from the Seventh Spanish Working Conditions Survey (2011). We defined 4 employment profiles and estimated the associations between them and poor self-perceived health using Poisson regression models. All analyses were stratified by sex. The prevalence of the informal profile was 4% for women and 1.5% for men. Differences in self-perceived health status among employment profiles were negligible. Only women engaged in informal employment had poorer self-perceived health than those in the reference profile. This difference disappeared after adjusting models for psychosocial risk factors. In conclusion, we did not find differences in self-perceived health status between employment profiles, except for women in informal employment. Efforts should be made to improve the psychosocial risk factors in women in informal employment.

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Response: “Should psychosocial risk factors associated with working conditions be evaluated?”

Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales ◽

10.12961/aprl.2016.19.02.7 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 112-113

Author(s):

Jaume de Montserrat

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Psychosocial Risk Factors ◽

Psychosocial Risk ◽

Factors Associated

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Should psychosocial risk factors associated with working conditions be evaluated?

Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales ◽

10.12961/aprl.2016.19.01.5 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 30-31

Author(s):

Miquel Mira Muñoz

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Psychosocial Risk Factors ◽

Psychosocial Risk ◽

Factors Associated

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Suicide Attempts Among Depressed Inpatients with Depressive Disorder in a Malaysian Sample

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000088 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 32 (5) ◽

pp. 283-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

L. F. Chan ◽

T. Maniam ◽

A. S. Shamsul

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Suicide Attempt ◽

Depressive Disorder ◽

Suicide Attempts ◽

Psychosocial Risk Factors ◽

Psychosocial Risk ◽

Life Event ◽

Axis I ◽

A Current

Background: Depressed inpatients constitute a high-risk population for suicide attempts. Aims: To describe the interactions of clinical and psychosocial risk factors influencing suicide attempts among a Malaysian sample of depressed inpatients. Methods: Seventy-five subjects were diagnosed with a depressive disorder according to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders-Clinical Version (SCID-CV). Data on suicide attempts, suicidal ideation (Scale for Suicidal Ideation, SSI), depression severity (Beck’s Depression Inventory, BDI), recent life-event changes (Social Readjustment Rating Scale, SRRS), sociodemographic and other relevant clinical factors were collected. Results: A third of the subjects presented after a current suicide attempt. Significant factors for a current suicide attempt were race, religion, recent life-event changes, suicidal ideation, and alcohol use disorder. Independent predictive risk factors for a current suicide attempt were Chinese race, recent marital separation, major mortgage or loans, and being newly diagnosed with depression. Any recent change in personal habits was shown to be a protective factor against current suicide attempt. Age and gender were nonsignificant factors. Conclusions: The findings are generally consistent with existing studies and highlight the role of psychosocial risk factors.

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