Σάββατο 13 Ιανουαρίου 2018

Response to: 'Psychosocial job stressors and suicidality: a meta-analysis and systematic review by Milner et al

I read with great interest the meta-analysis paper by Milner et al1 about the associations between psychosocial job stressors and suicidality in working populations. The authors have compiled  and investigated 22 epidemiological studies on chronic job stressors (job control, job demands, job strain, colleague/supervisor support, effortreward imbalance, job insecurity, role conflict and working hours/shift work) and suicide ideation/death in the literature, which is a very timely and important review that will contribute to the primary prevention of suicide in working populations.

However, I would like to point out one important data extraction error in their paper. The authors1 reported that high psychological job demands increased the risk for suicide death in the original paper by Ostry et al2: OR=1.32 (95% CI: 1.31 to 1.33). They also reported a gender difference in their meta-analysis that high psychological job demands were significantly and positively associated with suicide death in...



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