Psychological distress is more common in some occupations and increases with job tenure: a thirty-seven year panel study in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Workers in certain occupations may have elevated risks of psychological distress. However, research is limited. For example, researchers often measure distress that may have existed before occupational exposures. We studied occupations and the development of psychological distress using national data from the United States.

Methods

We reviewed relevant research to identify occupations with low and high risks of mental health problems. We confirmed those individual low and high risk occupations using 1981-2017 data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (n = 24,789). We measured new cases of distress using the Screening Scale for Psychological Distress (Kessler K6) and compared distress in the low and high risk groups, adjusted for factors associated with occupati

SUBMITTER: Laditka JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10064628 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature