From the Harvard School of Public Health (Drs Jacobsen, Caban-Martinez, Sorensen, Dennerlein, and Reme and Ms Onyebeke), Northeastern University (Dr Dennerlein), and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Dr Sorensen), Boston, Mass; Uni Health (Dr Reme), Uni Research, Bergen, Norway; and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Dr Jacobsen), Trondheim, Norway.
J Occup Environ Med. 2013 Oct;55(10):1197-204. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31829c76b3.
We aimed to investigate how mental distress was associated with pain and injuries in a convenience sample of construction workers.
A cross-sectional, mental health assessment was conducted in a convenience sample of construction workers (N = 172). A subsample participated in a clinical interview (n = 10). We used a cutoff (1.50 or greater) on Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 to determine substantial mental distress and determined associations with pain and injury outcomes.
The prevalence of substantial mental distress was 16% in the workers. This was supported by follow-up clinical interviews where 9 of 10 workers fulfilled the criteria for a mental disorder. Substantial mental distress was associated with both injury rate and self-reported pain.
This pilot study strongly suggests the need for rigorous studies on construction worker mental health and how it affects their work and well-being.
我们旨在调查在建筑工人的便利样本中，精神困扰如何与疼痛和损伤相关。
在建筑工人的便利样本中进行了一项横断面、心理健康评估（N=172）。一个亚样本参与了临床访谈（n=10）。我们使用霍普金斯症状清单-25 的截止值（1.50 或更高）来确定大量的精神困扰，并确定与疼痛和损伤结果的关联。
工人中大量精神困扰的患病率为 16%。这得到了后续临床访谈的支持，其中 10 名工人中有 9 名符合精神障碍的标准。大量的精神困扰与受伤率和自我报告的疼痛有关。
这项初步研究强烈表明，需要对建筑工人的心理健康以及它如何影响他们的工作和福祉进行严格的研究。
