TY - JOUR
T1 - Digging for gold and coming up blue
T2 - a health survey in the mining industry
AU - Velander, Fredrik
AU - Schineanu, Andreia
AU - Liang, W
AU - Midford, Richard
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A comprehensive health screening was conducted with 591 workers from a goldmine in Western Australia to inform company health promotion programs. We investigated lifestyle and work-related health risk factors using a specifically designed survey, screened for depression, anxiety and stress using the DASS-21 questionnaire and the AUDIT for alcohol consumption. Results show that ratesof smoking, diabetes, depression and anxiety were higher than respective national rural and remote state figures. Frequent and high levels of work-related stress and personal stress were significantly associated with harmful drinking, depression, anxiety and stress, even after adjusting for a number of independent variables. The results suggest that the psycho-social working environment in the WA mining industry is challenging and may be responsible for the high rates of mental health issuesobserved in this study.
AB - A comprehensive health screening was conducted with 591 workers from a goldmine in Western Australia to inform company health promotion programs. We investigated lifestyle and work-related health risk factors using a specifically designed survey, screened for depression, anxiety and stress using the DASS-21 questionnaire and the AUDIT for alcohol consumption. Results show that ratesof smoking, diabetes, depression and anxiety were higher than respective national rural and remote state figures. Frequent and high levels of work-related stress and personal stress were significantly associated with harmful drinking, depression, anxiety and stress, even after adjusting for a number of independent variables. The results suggest that the psycho-social working environment in the WA mining industry is challenging and may be responsible for the high rates of mental health issuesobserved in this study.
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M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Journal of Health, Safety and Environment
JF - Journal of Health, Safety and Environment
SN - 0815-6409
IS - 5
ER -