Unemployment and Mental Health: Understanding the Interactions Among Gender, Family Roles, and Social Class

Artazcoz, Lucı́a; Benach, Joan; Borrell, Carme; Cortès, Immaculada

doi:10.2105/ajph.94.1.82

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“…Our finding regarding the importance of employment status in relation to psychological morbidity is in keeping with previous findings suggesting the importance of work to both men's mental health and health behaviours (Lahelma, 1992;Artazcoz et al, 2004). The present study found that increased reporting of perceived barriers to PSA screening such as taking time off work is associated with higher levels of cancer-specific worry.…”

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Feasibility of familial PSA screening: psychosocial issues and screening adherence

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This study examined factors that predict psychological morbidity and screening adherence in first-degree relatives (FDRs) taking part in a familial PSA screening study. Prostate cancer patients (index cases -ICs) who gave consent for their FDRs to be contacted for a familial PSA screening study to contact their FDRs were also asked permission to invite these FDRs into a linked psychosocial study. Participants were assessed on measures of psychological morbidity (including the General Health Questionnaire; Cancer Worry Scale; Health Anxiety Questionnaire; Impact of Events Scale); and perceived benefits and barriers, knowledge; perceived risk/ susceptibility; family history; and socio-demographics. Of 255 ICs, 155 (61%) consented to their FDRs being contacted. Of 207 FDRs approached, 128 (62%) consented and completed questionnaires. Multivariate logistic regression revealed that health anxiety, perceived risk and subjective stress predicted higher cancer worry (P ¼ 0.05). Measures of psychological morbidity did not predict screening adherence. Only past screening behaviour reliably predicted adherence to familial screening (P ¼ 0.05). First-degree relatives entering the linked familial PSA screening programme do not, in general, have high levels of psychological morbidity. However, a small number of men exhibited psychological distress.

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“…A tendência de associação inversa entre escolaridade e risco de se tornar fumante foi mais modesta entre as mulheres quando comparadas aos homens, em aná-lise longitudinal 36 . Artacoz et al 37 , ao discutirem gênero, saúde e trabalho, mais especificamente o desemprego, creditam aos papéis socialmente atribuídos aos homens e às mulheres uma parte da explicação das diferenças observadas. Segundo os autores, para as mulheres, viver com cônjuge pode resultar em suporte financeiro e emocional, minimizando os efeitos do trabalho precário ou desemprego sobre a saúde e comportamentos relacionados; por outro lado, para os homens, essa mesma situação pode causar efeito reverso.…”

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Tabagismo, situação no mercado de trabalho e gênero: análise da PNAD 2008

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Barreto

2011

Cad. Saúde Pública

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“…It emphasises a series of issues, including how prisoners feel unprepared for release, emotionally, practically and financially, and the difficulties they encounter when finding suitable accommodation and employment in the community. These issues have clear health implications, with inadequate and substandard housing having a direct (in terms of physical and mental health) and indirect (in relation to access to services) health impact (Gill and de Wildt 2003), and unemployment potentially being particularly detrimental to the mental health of men (Artazcoz et al 2004). …”

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Prisoners’ perspectives on the transition from the prison to the community: implications for settings-based health promotion

Woodall

Dixey

South

2013

Critical Public Health

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Through qualitative exploration with soon-to-be-released men in three prisons in England, this paper examines the difficulties that prisoners envisage on returning back to community settings; entering other settings such as workplaces; and the implications the transition may have for their health. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with thirty-six prisoners, some of whom were convicted of sexual offences and based on a vulnerable prisoner unit (VPU). While not all prisoners offered the information, approximately two-thirds of the sample had offended previously. The transition that individuals make from the prison setting to the community can be potentially complex and often detrimental to health. Accommodation issues were forecast as a major concern for those men without family ties.Temporarily residing with friends or living in hostel residences were viable options for many prisoners, but both had drawbacks which could increase the probability of engaging in substance misuse. Resettlement issues were perceived to be more difficult for sex-offenders; their 'identity' provided an additional burden which created further re-integration difficulties.Employment opportunities, for example, were predicted to be drastically reduced as the men had signed the sex-offenders' register. The paper suggests that opportunities for successful transition could be enhanced by a more 'joined-up' settings perspective and proposes that a settings-based approach to health promotion, which emphasises the synergy between social settings and addressing wider determinants of health, should be applied to prisons to reduce, rather than exacerbate, inequalities.

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Unemployment and Mental Health: Understanding the Interactions Among Gender, Family Roles, and Social Class

Abstract: Understanding the effects of unemployment on mental health requires consideration of the interactions among gender, family responsibilities, and social class.

Cited by 487 publications

References 29 publications

Feasibility of familial PSA screening: psychosocial issues and screening adherence

Feasibility of familial PSA screening: psychosocial issues and screening adherence

Tabagismo, situação no mercado de trabalho e gênero: análise da PNAD 2008

Prisoners’ perspectives on the transition from the prison to the community: implications for settings-based health promotion

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