Prevalence of poor self-rated health and common mental disorder among persistently precarious employed adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aftermath of the 2008 recession created conditions in which precarious employment may have become more common in the UK. We characterized two distinct periods: high unemployment/lower income (2011-5) and lower unemployment/stagnant income (2015-9).

Aims

We aimed to describe the prevalence and persistence of these dimensions of precarious employment over two time periods (2011-5 and 2015-9) and investigate the prevalence of precarious employment patterns, poor self-rated health and common mental disorder.

Methods

We used the UK Longitudinal Household Study to create employment history sequences for three dimensions of precarious employment using two four-wave samples. We applied latent class analysis to sequenced data to identify people persistently expo

SUBMITTER: Pulford A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12449262 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature