Suicide Ideation and Work Strain Tool

Suicide Ideation and Work Strain

No. of employees in your organisation:

220

No. of employees suicide ideation

11% employees report to suicidal ideation caused by work-related issues

Work strain is a common occurrence among all employees. But excessive work strain leads to various physical as well as mental health complexities. Understanding each employee’s mental hardiness is essential in order to measure the work strain being faced.
In severe cases,results show that there are significantly positive association of job strain and long work hours with moderate to severe suicidal ideation. The ideation may be passive or active in nature. Either way, the presence of suicide ideation due to work strain in itself is an alarming sign of decreasing mental health.

Page Source : https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2018/09/13/suicide-prevention/

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is Suicide Ideation and Work Strain Tool?

The Suicide Ideation and Work Strain Tool is a device to measure the work strain of company employees and gauge the approximate number of employees that could possibly have suicide ideations. It may act as a red alert for administration to pay keen attention to and cater to the mental health of their employees.

2. What are the benefits of Suicide Ideation and Work Strain Tool?

The tool gives the company a rough idea of the number of stressed employees in their company. It gives them an opportunity to think about and inquire of their employees’ mental conditions.

3. What is suicide ideation?

Suicide ideation is when you think about killing yourself. The thoughts might or might not include a plan to die by suicide. Suicide ideation is either passive, which means it only involves the wish or thoughts of killing self without any plan or attempts, or active, which involves a clear plan of how, when and where to implement the suicide.

4. What is work strain?

Work strain is the psychosocial stress that occurs in a workplace when demands are high, situation is adverse and control is low. Work strain in the workplace has proved to result in poor psychological health, and eventually physical health. Job strain has been a recurring issue for years and affects men and women differently.

5. What are the effects of work strain on mental health?

Excess work strain has adverse effects on mental health. It leads to burnout, poor memory, low tolerance, high irritability, increased anger issues and more such problems. On an extreme level, work strain and suicide ideation are found to be linked for may overburned employees.

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