Citation

Claassen K, Broding HC. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019; 16(16): e16162875.

Affiliation

Faculty of Health Department of Human Medicine, Chair of Occupational Medicine and Corporate Health Management, Witten/Herdecke University, Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58448 Witten, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph16162875

PMID

31408940

Abstract

Inability to work due to reported mental strain and psychiatric disorders is rising in Germany these days. Meanwhile the country's net migration is positive. While there is empirical evidence for a healthy migrant effect regarding the physical health in the beginning (mostly accompanied by a subsequent convergence effect), the mental health of migrants remains partly understudied. In order to evaluate the migrant's share in the rise of reported mental strain in Germany, 4000 employees were surveyed by means of an online access panel. About 16 percent of them revealed a migration background. Their Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) score is slightly yet significantly above the German autochthonous' one both using bi- and multivariate analysis, indicating that there is a specific vulnerability rather than a healthy migrant effect regarding mental strain at work.

Language: en

Keywords

burnout; epidemiology; mental health; migrant health; occupational medicine; public health