ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2005
Effect of psychiatric illness and labour market status on suicide: a healthy worker effect?
Article in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- The Role of Socioeconomic Position in the Association Between Mental Disorders and Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Widening the knowledge of non-employment as a risk factor for suicide: a Norwegian register-based population study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Suicide trends among Australian construction workers during years 2001-2019.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Association Between Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Psychiatric Morbidity and Suicide: A Swedish Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study With Sibling Comparisons.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2021Article
- Unemployment insurance program accessibility and suicide rates in the United States.Preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Increased ASL-CBF in the right amygdala predicts the first onset of depression in healthy young first-degree relatives of patients with major depression.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2020Article
- Comparable Risk of Suicidal Ideation between Workers at Precarious Employment and Unemployment: Data from the Korean Welfare Panel Study, 2012-2017.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Environmental Stressors May Drive Inflammation and Alter Neurocircuitry to Promote Suicidal Behavior.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
- New Findings On Gender: The Effects Of Employment Status On Suicide.International journal of women's health · 2019Article
- The Effect of Employment Status in Postdisaster Recovery: A Longitudinal Comparative Study Among Employed and Unemployed Affected Residents.Journal of traumatic stress · 2018Article
- Disparities at the intersection of marginalized groups.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2016Review
- Work characteristics and suicidal ideation in young adults in France.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
- Assessing the total effect of time-varying predictors in prevention research.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2006Article
- Healthy Worker Effect Phenomenon: Revisited with Emphasis on Statistical Methods - A Review.Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicineReview
- Social Status and Suicidal Activity Among Psychiatric Patients: Moderating Effects of Gender, Race and Psychiatric Diagnosis.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchArticle
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Abstract
STUDY
objectiveTo describe the association between labour market status and death by suicide with focus on admission with a psychiatric disorder.
designNested case-control study. Data from routine registers.
settingEntire Danish population.
participants9011 people aged 25-60 years who committed suicide during 1982-1997 and 180 220 matched controls. MAIN
resultsIn the general population, not being fully employed is associated with a twofold to threefold increased relative risk of death by suicide, compared with being fully employed. In contrast, fully employed people who have been first admitted to a psychiatric hospital within the past year are at increased suicide risk. Patients who are unemployed, social benefits recipients, disability pensioners, or otherwise marginalised on the labour market have a suicide risk of 0.60 (95% CI: 0.46 to 0.78), 0.41 (0.23 to 0.74), 0.70 (0.45 to 1.08), and 0.86 (0.53 to 1.41), respectively. Although a similar risk decrease is found in women, men, people younger than 30 years, people older than 45 years, and in people who become unemployed, the reversed effect attenuates with time since admission, and little association is seen when a marginal structural model is applied.
conclusionsAlthough the results show an increased suicide mortality associated with unemployment and labour market marginalisation in the general population, the results suggest little or an inverse association between unemployment and suicide in people with psychiatric illness. The associations seen suggest the need to consider healthy worker selection effects when studying the causal pathway from unemployment and psychiatric illness to suicide.
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