{
  "abstract": "Background Rates of work disability amongst young adults are rising alarmingly fast, largely driven by increases in mental illness. Understanding how the work environment affects the mental health of young adults will inform policies to improve their wellbeing and reduce the number of young adults leaving the workforce. However, research in this area is sparse and has not previously been collated. This review aims to discover the extent of existing research on how the mental health of young adults (16–30) is affected by their workplace, and to identify which workplace exposures improve or worsen mental health.Methods A systematic scoping search was conducted across the Medline, Embase, Web of Science and PsycINFO databases, capturing peer-reviewed journal articles involving young adults, workplace exposures, and mental health outcomes. Only papers with data collected after 2007 and those conducted in high income countries were included, to limit the review to papers applicable to the present day UK. Articles specifically investigating the COVID-19 pandemic as an exposure were excluded, as these are less generalisable to current issues. Articles identified in this search were deduplicated, screened by title and abstract, and inclusion was confirmed with full text screening before data extraction.Results The initial search, after de-duplication, yielded 18,786 results. Of these, 8937 have so far undergone title and abstract screening; 511 passed through to full text screening with 43 papers meeting the inclusion criteria. Preliminary descriptive results show that 37% (n=16) of these papers studied nurses, with the remainder covering a wide range of different occupations. 81% (n=35) were primarily concerned with common mental disorders. Most studies were observational and used quantitative methods. One study used qualitative methods, and four evaluated interventions. Job insecurity was the most studied exposure ( 21% of papers; n=9), and 8/9 of these showed a negative association with mental health. Other exposures varied both in topic and in their strength as a predictor for mental health outcomes.Conclusion Preliminary findings show that research on young adult workplace-related mental health disproportionately focuses on nurses, and a negative association between job insecurity and the mental health of young adults. Full findings will be presented.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Libby Haynes"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Alena Oxenham"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Hao Tang"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Clinical School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Aisha Iqbal"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Clinical School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Aaqta Arham"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK",
        "School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Eleanor Winpenny"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Bristol Medical School (PHS), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Russell Jago"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Esther van Sluijs"
    }
  ],
  "title": "P35 The impact of the work environment on mental health in young adults: a scoping review",
  "uid": "827978f0-b58c-522e-8153-d575aa5f7414"
}