The children of men with stressful jobs, particularly jobs in which they have low control over their work and low psychological demand, are at higher risk of attempting suicide than others.
A study published today in the open access journal BMC Public Health also shows that boys are at higher risk of committing suicide if their father had a job with low psychological demand during the first 16 years of the child's life.
Ostry et al. collected data on the men's history of employment, their physical work conditions and their psychosocial work conditions -- these include the level of responsibility, the control over their everyday tasks and their time constraints, which govern the level of stress they experience in their job.
Ostry et al. obtained data on attempted and completed suicides among the children using a unique resource, the British Columbia Linked Health Database.
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