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      Correlates of psychological distress among workers in the mining industry in remote Australia: Evidence from a multi-site cross-sectional survey

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          The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of psychological distress in employees in the metalliferous mining industry in Australia, and to examine associated demographic, health, and workplace characteristics. A cross sectional survey was conducted among 1,799 participants from four metalliferous mines. Psychological distress was measured by the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10), alongside other measures of personal demographics, health history, health behaviour, and workplace characteristics. Univariate and multivariate statistical methods were used to examine associations between psychological distress and personal and workplace characteristics. Levels of moderate to very high psychological distress were significantly higher in this sample (44.4%) compared to the general population (27.2%). Moderate to very high psychological distress was significantly associated with younger age; individual health factors (a prior history of depression, anxiety, or drug/alcohol problems); health behaviours (using illicit drugs in the last month); and a range of workplace factors (concern about losing their job; lower satisfaction with work; working shifts of over 12 hours duration; working in mining for financial reasons and social factors (poorer social networks). The identification of a number of social, personal and workplace factors associated with high psychological distress present useful targets to inform the development of tailored workplace interventions to reduce distress in metalliferous mine employees.

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                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
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                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                20 December 2018
                2018
                : 13
                : 12
                : e0209377
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Centre for Resources Health and Safety, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
                [2 ] School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
                [3 ] Everymind, Newcastle, Australia
                [4 ] Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
                [5 ] Clinical Research Design and Statistics, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia
                [6 ] Priority Research Centre for Generational Health and Ageing, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
                [7 ] Department of Statistics, Comilla University, Comilla, Bangladesh
                [8 ] School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
                Australian National University, AUSTRALIA
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6321-9347
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3987-3007
                Article
                PONE-D-18-24042
                10.1371/journal.pone.0209377
                6301627
                30571731
                b58235fa-d548-4098-861e-ca07f9763162
                © 2018 James et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 14 August 2018
                : 4 December 2018
                Page count
                Figures: 1, Tables: 5, Pages: 17
                Funding
                Funded by: Minerals Council of Australia
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                Funded by: Minerals Council of Australia
                Award Recipient :
                BK, CJ received funds from the Minerals Council of Australia. http://www.minerals.org.au/, Grant number N/A. The funder was involved in recruitment of participants (approaching interested mine sites across Australia). The funder had no role in data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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