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Minor psychiatric morbidity and the threat of redundancy in a professional group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Rachel Jenkins ,
Alastair MacDonald ,
Joanna Murray  and
Geraldine Strathdee
Rachel Jenkins*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Alastair MacDonald
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Joanna Murray
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Geraldine Strathdee
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Rachel Jenkins. Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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Synopsis

After the journalists of a national newspaper had been issued with redundancy notices, a prospective study was carried Out to examine the effect of the threat of their redundancy on minor psychiatric morbidity. Following the subsequent withdrawal of redundancy notices, there was considerable reduction in minor symptomatology, and the implications of this are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , November 1982 , pp. 799 - 807
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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