Associations of non-employment with common mental disorder subcomponents among working age population: Analysis of national data from 1993, 2000, 2007 and 2014.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Associations between employment status and mental health are well-recognised and such associations may have multiple modifying factors which may also contribute to variations in results.

Aims

We aimed to investigate associations between non-employment and CMD subcomponents and the extent of their variation across age groups using nationally representative data in Britain.

Method

We used a series of national mental health surveys of adults living in private households: the British National Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity of 1993, 2000, 2007 and 2014. Employment status was the primary exposure of interest. Presence or absence of each fourteen symptoms of common mental disorder (CMD), as the primary outcome, was ascertained identically in all surveys from the

SUBMITTER: Perera G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11874606 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature