Table THORP07

Work-related mental ill-health: estimated number of cases of anxiety and depression reported by psychiatrists to SOSMI and by occupational physicians to OPRA and estimated rates per 100 000 workers per year, by precipitating event 2005-2007

Major category	Subcategory	Psychiatrists & Occupational physicians(p)		Psychiatrists (SOSMI)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b)(p)
Major category	Subcategory	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2005-2007	% of total	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2005-2007	% of total	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2005-2007	% of total
1. Factors intrinsic to the job		1378	40	448	35	930	42
	1.0 Factors intrinsic to the job (unspecified)	139	4	35	3	104	5
	1.1 Workload /over demand /pressure of work	829	24	273	21	557	25
	1.2 Work schedule /hours /shift work	75	2	32	3	43	2
	1.3 Travel /working away from home	46	1	36	3	10	-
	1.5 Organisational factors, role poor defined, low job control, perceived lack of support and poor management	371	11	66	5	306	14
	1.6 Under load /boredom /monotony	27	1	24	2	2	-
	1.7 Responsibilities	43	1	31	2	12	1
2. Changes at work		535	15	202	16	333	15
	2.0 Changes at work (unspecified)	122	3	24	2	97	4
	2.1 Change of management /organisational change /company take over	108	3	35	3	73	3
	2.2 Changes in ways of work, e.g. using new technology	28	1	9	1	19	1
	2.3 Change of work content (new job, added responsibilities, capability problems, real or perceived)	205	6	107	8	98	4
	2.4 Reduction in resources available including staff	82	2	29	2	53	2
	2.5 Relocation	22	1	9	1	14	1
3. Interpersonal relationships		1024	29	342	27	681	31
	3.0 Interpersonal relationships (unspecified)	188	5	27	2	161	7
	3.1 Interpersonal difficulties with manager /foreman	321	9	129	10	191	9
	3.2 Interpersonal difficulties with other workers	122	4	49	4	73	3
	3.3 Interpersonal difficulties with patients /clients /relatives /pupils	84	2	23	2	61	3
	3.4 Bullying /sexual harassment	407	12	149	12	258	12
4. Inequality		37	1	17	1	20	1
5. Personal Development		192	6	109	9	83	4
	5.0 Personal Development (unspecified)	22	1	12	1	10	-
	5.1 Job not secure	27	1	1	-	26	1
	5.2 Redundancy /unemployment /threat of redundancy /sacked	39	1	28	2	11	-
	5.3 Business failure, bankruptcy	22	1	21	2	1	-
	5.4 Lack of opportunities /demotion	17	-	9	1	8	-
	5.6 Exams /training pressures /courses /OFSTED /appraisal	58	2	41	3	17	1
	5.7 Lack of training	15	-	4	-	11	-
6. Physical working environment		37	1	9	1	28	1
	6.0 Physical working environment (unspecified)	29	1	8	1	21	1
7. Traumatic Events		308	9	133	10	175	8
	7.0 Traumatic Events (unspecified)	19	1	9	1	10	-
	7.1 Violence at work /verbal abuse /sexual assault	64	2	26	2	38	2
	7.2 Accidents and physical injury	58	2	46	4	12	1
	7.3 Traumatic experience of other people injury or fatality at work	40	1	22	2	18	1
	7.4 Disciplinary action /accusation /legal proceedings etc	136	4	40	3	97	4
8. Home - work interface		234	7	153	12	81	4
	8.0 Home - work interface (unspecified)	19	1	10	1	9	-
	8.1 One or more physical illness	58	2	39	3	19	1
	8.2 Previous psychiatric illness /family history of psychiatric illness	8	-	7	1	1	-
	8.3 Family responsibilities /home-work interface /pregnancy /childbirth /children /severe health problem in close relative	77	2	37	3	40	2
	8.4 Severe event, death in family or close friend, separation, marital break up or marital problem	73	2	60	5	13	1
9. Others		496	14	195	15	300	14
	9.2 Personal characteristics, e.g. loss of confidence, felt not good enough for the job or over expectation for the job	91	3	32	3	59	3
	9.3 Unspecified work stress	251	7	83	7	168	8
	9.9 No reason given	137	4	64	5	73	3
Total(a)		3485	100	1270	100	2215	100

Notes:

(a) At least one precipitating event was given to each case. In some cases, more than one precipitating event was given, therefore the sum total of individual precipitating events will exceed the total number of cases. Figures are shown in light type if they are based on fewer than 10 actual cases.
(b) Comparisons based on OPRA reports are likely to be misleading because workers in some occupations are much more likely to have access to occupational physicians than those in others.
(c) Some physicians report on a sample basis, for one month in each year. Estimated totals for these are calculated by multiplying the actual number of cases reported by 12.
'-' Means zero
(p) Provisional