Psychological Morbidity of Farmers and Non-farming Population: Results from a UK Survey

The relatively high rate of suicide among UK farmers suggests that they may suffer greater mental health problems than the general population. This paper provides a comparison of the psychological morbidity of farmers and their partners/spouses with non-farmers. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Community mental health journal 2012-08, Vol.48 (4), p.503-510
Hauptverfasser:	Hounsome, Barry, Edwards, Rhiannon T., Hounsome, Natalia, Edwards-Jones, Gareth
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Age Distribution Aged Agricultural commodities Agricultural Workers' Diseases - epidemiology Agricultural Workers' Diseases - psychology Agriculture Alcohol Community and Environmental Psychology Employment Farmers Female Health services Health Surveys Humans Interviews as Topic Male Medicine Medicine & Public Health Mental depression Mental disorders Mental Disorders - epidemiology Mental Disorders - psychology Mental Health Mental health care Middle Aged Morbidity Natural resources Original Paper Population Psychiatric disorders Psychiatric morbidity Psychiatry Questionnaires Rain Research methodology Residence Characteristics Rural areas Rural Health Rural Population - statistics & numerical data Selfemployed Sex Distribution Socioeconomic Factors Spouses Spouses - psychology Stress Stress, Psychological - epidemiology Suicide Suicides & suicide attempts Surveys and Questionnaires Wales - epidemiology Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	The relatively high rate of suicide among UK farmers suggests that they may suffer greater mental health problems than the general population. This paper provides a comparison of the psychological morbidity of farmers and their partners/spouses with non-farmers. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) was administered using face-to-face interviews with 784 attendees of agricultural shows in the UK. Results show that GHQ-12 scores for farmers and their partners/spouses were significantly higher ( P
ISSN:	0010-3853 1074-7583 1573-2789
DOI:	10.1007/s10597-011-9415-8