Owen K, Watson N
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 1995;2(2):63-71. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.1995.tb00145.x.
The literature review has been carried out to examine current evidence linking mental health and unemployment. The research reviewed in this paper covers a wide range of academic disciplines spanning epidemiological medical research to more descriptive papers from social policy and geography, and while international material is included, the work concentrates on British literature. The paper examines published accounts of the relationship between mental health, suicidal behaviour and employment giving special attention to the influence of the variables, age and gender, on the experience of unemployment. All the literature reviewed suggests a link between unemployment and mental health problems. However, the direction of this link, that is whether unemployment is the cause of poor mental health or the result of poor mental health, is not clear. This paper will be of interest to a wide range of community health professionals, especially those working in areas affected by unemployment or mental health professionals working with individuals who recently have been made redundant.
已开展文献综述以审视当前将心理健康与失业联系起来的证据。本文所综述的研究涵盖了广泛的学术学科，从流行病学医学研究到社会政策和地理学领域更具描述性的论文，虽然纳入了国际资料，但工作重点是英国文献。本文考察了已发表的关于心理健康、自杀行为与就业之间关系的记述，特别关注年龄和性别变量对失业经历的影响。所有被综述的文献都表明失业与心理健康问题之间存在联系。然而，这种联系的方向，即失业是心理健康不佳的原因还是心理健康不佳的结果，并不明确。本文将引起广泛的社区卫生专业人员的兴趣，尤其是那些在受失业影响地区工作的人员，或与最近被裁员的个人打交道的心理健康专业人员。
