- Title
- Help-seeking for mental health problems by employees in the Australian Mining Industry
- Creator
- Tynan, Ross J.; Considine, Robyn; Perkins, David; Kelly, Brian J.; Rich, Jane L.; Skehan, Jaelea; Wiggers, John; Lewin, Terry J.; James, Carole; Inder, Kerry; Baker, Amanda L.; Kay-Lambkin, Frances
- Relation
- BMC Health Services Research Vol. 16
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1755-1
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Background: The current study examined help-seeking behavior for mental health problems of employees in the mining industry. Methods: The research involved a paper-based survey completed by a cross-section of employees from eight coalmine sites. The research aimed to investigate the frequency of contact with professional and non-professional sources of support, and to determine the socio-demographic and workplace factors associated. Results: A total of 1,457 employees participated, of which, 46.6 % of participants reported contact with support to discuss their own mental health within the preceding 12 months. Hierarchical logistic regression revealed a significant contribution of workplace variables, with job security and satisfaction with work significantly associated with help-seeking behavior. Conclusions: The results provide an insight into the help-seeking behaviour of mining employees, providing useful information to guide mental health workplace program development for the mining industry, and male-dominated industry more broadly.
- Subject
- mental illness; help-seeking; coal mining; workplace health
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1322189
- Identifier
- uon:24530
- Identifier
- ISSN:1472-6963
- Rights
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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