Associations between COVID-19-related changes in the psychosocial work environment and mental health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals' lives have been substantially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to describe changes in psychosocial work environment and mental health and to investigate associations between job insecurity and mental ill-health in relation to changes in other psychosocial work factors, loneliness and financial worries.

Methods

A sub-sample of individuals from the eighth Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health answered a web-based survey in early 2021 about current and pandemic-related changes in health, health behaviours, work and private life. We investigated participants working before the pandemic (N=1231) in relation to standardised measures on depression, anxiety and loneliness, together with psychosocial work factors, in descriptive

SUBMITTER: Blomqvist S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040465 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature