ArticleBMC public health2017
Male suicide among construction workers in Australia: a qualitative analysis of the major stressors precipitating death.
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- Work-related suicide: an international social justice perspective.Crime, law, and social change · 2025Article
- Social Determinants of Suicide and Suicidality in Serving Military Personnel: A Global Scoping Review.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Article
- Occupational groups and risk of suicidal behavior in men: a Swedish national cohort study during 2002-2019.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Experience of pre-suicidal suffering: insights from suicide attempt survivors.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- The role of social identity in a suicide prevention programme for construction workers in Australia.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Importance of Prefabrication to Easing Construction Workers' Experience of Mental Health Stressors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Prevalence and associated risk factors for suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempt among male construction workers in Ireland.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Paradoxes of interdependence and dependence": A qualitative study of economic difficulties and relational encounters prior to men's suicide in Ghana.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023Article
- Exploring the Impact of Social Identity on the Bullying of Construction Industry Apprentices.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Influence of Prefabricated Construction on the Mental Health of Workers: Systematic Review.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Review
- "And you feel like you're suffocating … how the fuck am I going to get out of all this?" Drivers and experiences of suicidal ideation in the Australian construction industry.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Understanding and enhancing responses to distress in the construction industry: protocol for a data linkage study.BMJ open · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSuicide rates among those employed in male-dominated professions such as construction are elevated compared to other occupational groups. Thus far, past research has been mainly quantitative and has been unable to identify the complex range of risk and protective factors that surround these suicides.
methodsWe used a national coronial database to qualitatively study work and non-work related influences on male suicide occurring in construction workers in Australia. We randomly selected 34 cases according to specific sampling framework. Thematic analysis was used to develop a coding structure on the basis of pre-existing theories in job stress research.
resultsThe following themes were established on the basis of mutual consensus: mental health issues prior to death, transient working experiences (i.e., the inability to obtain steady employment), workplace injury and chronic illness, work colleagues as a source of social support, financial and legal problems, relationship breakdown and child custody issues, and substance abuse.
conclusionWork and non-work factors were often interrelated pressures prior to death. Suicide prevention for construction workers needs to take a systematic approach, addressing work-level factors as well as helping those at-risk of suicide.
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