- Title
- Does help seeking behavior change over time following a workplace mental health intervention in the coal mining industry?
- Creator
- Sayers, Emma; Rich, Jane; Rahman, Md Mijanur; Kelly, Brian; James, Carole
- Relation
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Vol. 61, Issue 6, p. e282-e290
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000001605
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Objectives: To investigate help seeking behavior and attitudes to mental health in mining employees. Methods: A pre-post survey study of employees from two Australian coal mines. Data were collected prior to, at baseline, at 6 and 18 months following delivery of the MATES in mining (MIM) peer support mental health intervention. Results: Help seeking behaviors increased, with participants' sex, age, relationship status, shift type, and psychological distress significantly associated with likelihood of seeking help (P < 0.05). In relation to stigma, significantly more participants' disagreed that they would be treated differently by friends or colleagues following disclosure of mental illness (P < 0.01). Conclusions: Results provide an understanding of help seeking behaviors of mining employees; support the MATES in Mining peer support program in the men dominated industry and provide information to guide mental health workplace program development more broadly.
- Subject
- coal mining; help seeking; mental health
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445079
- Identifier
- uon:42493
- Identifier
- ISSN:1076-2752
- Language
- eng
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