Jenkins R
Psychol Med. 1980 Nov;10(4):751-7. doi: 10.1017/s0033291700055045.
A pilot study is described on 41 men and women of similar age, social and educational backgrounds, in 2 working environments. The use of psychiatric interviews in such occupational settings is demonstrated to be acceptable to both management and employees. Preliminary coefficients of validity for the General Health Questionnaire are found to compare favourably with those in clinical or community settings. Though the prevalence of minor psychiatric morbidity in these small samples did not differ between the sexes, the women had twice as many spells of absence as the men. Considering women separately, minor psychiatric morbidity was found to be significantly correlated with absence. However, psychiatric illness was a less important predictor of absence in men.
本文描述了一项针对41名年龄、社会背景和教育背景相似的男性和女性的试点研究，研究在两种工作环境中进行。结果表明，在这种职业环境中使用精神科访谈，管理层和员工都能接受。发现一般健康问卷的初步效度系数与临床或社区环境中的系数相比具有优势。尽管在这些小样本中，轻微精神疾病的患病率在性别上没有差异，但女性的缺勤次数是男性的两倍。单独考虑女性时，发现轻微精神疾病与缺勤显著相关。然而，精神疾病在男性缺勤预测中所占的比重较小。
