Irish farmers report moderately high work–family conflict, driven by long hours, structural pressures, and the demands of raising young children. This large survey maps who is most affected and why it matters for wellbeing, services, and policy.
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Depression, anxiety, and suicidality are higher among LGBTQ+ workers, especially in hostile or unsupportive workplaces. But are research and policy keeping up? This new review sets out the case for change.
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Can a nurse-led, digital mental health intervention for common mental disorders reduce sick leave and save money? This RCT from Sweden looked at cost, care, and what matters to patients.
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New research from Finland highlights the messiness of collaboration between mental health and occupational services. This blog explores what gets in the way, and what could make return-to-work support work better.
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Disclosure dilemmas stop many people with mental health problems from getting into work. A new feasibility study suggests that empowering employment specialists to talk openly about stigma and support disclosure decisions can help people find and keep jobs. Embedding these tools in practice could be key to closing the employment gap and reducing reliance on benefits.
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Olga Lainidi blogs a recent systematic review, which suggests that organisation-level interventions including job and task modifications, create the most benefit to reducing burnout and difficulty with mental health for healthcare workers in a variety of settings.
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In her debut blog, Brittany Oldale collaborates with Sarah Watts to summarise a grounded theory study that sought to create a postvention theory for how to support colleagues’ following a colleague’s suicide within the NHS.
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Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba summarises a cluster randomised controlled trial exploring the effectiveness of a low-intensity psychological intervention to reduce mental health stigma and improve help-seeking in the workplace.
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This is the second of three-blog posts to celebrate World Menopause Day 2023, Daisy Long looks at the social constructions of menopause based on a paper recently published in the Journal of Aging.
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Today, 18th October 2023, is World Menopause Day. It’s the now annual discussion on the impact that menopause has for the individual in the workplace, in the family and in our communities.
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