SSRIs and cognitive performance in a working sample.

Background: Studies of the impact of antidepressant use on cognitive performance have frequently been carried out among the elderly or on healthy volunteers. Comparatively little research has considered their impact on a relatively young, working population, particularly within the context of everyday life.

Aims: To examine any association between SSRI use and cognitive performance, mood and human error at work.

Minor injuries, cognitive failures and accidents at work: incidence and associated features.

Background: There is a dearth of information examining minor injuries and cognitive failures in the workplace.

Aims: This study aims to describe the incidence of, and characteristics associated with, minor injuries, cognitive failures and accidents in the workplace.

Methods: The study was a community based postal questionnaire survey of people selected at random from the Electoral Registers of Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil; 7980 questionnaires were returned.

Factors associated with recreational drug use.

This study aimed to examine demographic, lifestyle, mental health and personality factors associated with illicit recreational drug use, heavy alcohol consumption and smoking in a community-based population sample. A postal questionnaire survey was conducted of people who were selected at random from the Electoral registers of Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil. Illicit drug use was associated with risk taking, neuroticism, being male, having a higher education qualification, not being married, being unemployed, being aged under 25 years, smoking, heavy alcohol consumption and living in Cardiff.

Recreational drug use: patterns from a South Wales self-report survey.

This study aimed to examine patterns of illicit recreational drug use, alcohol consumption, and smoking in a community-based population sample. A postal questionnaire survey was conducted of people who were selected at random from the Electoral registers of Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil. Twelve percent of respondents reported illicit recreational drug use in the last year, and 7% in the last month.

Preliminary investigation of the association between psychotropic medication use and accidents, minor injuries and cognitive failures.

Rationale: Psychotropic medication may impair psychomotor and cognitive function, and so increase accident susceptibility. However, few studies examine any association in the framework of other demographic, health and occupational factors.

Objectives: To examine the relationship between sleeping tablets and antidepressants, and accidents, minor injuries and cognitive failures.