In the following visualizations we wanted to investigate the linkage between mental health disorder and families that have a history of mental health illness. From there, we explore the impact mental health disorder has on individuals' performance within the workplace. Mental health is often overlooked by employers and we wanted to emphasize the importance of having correct resources for mental health disorders within the workplace by identifying whether or not individuals were aware of resources provided by their employers.
We begin our exploration by taking a look at the linkage between mental health disorder and families that have a history of mental illness.
With cumulative data collected from 2014, 2016-2019, you can see that there is a high correlation of having a mental health disorder given your family has a history of mental illness. Across all years, over 60.40% of respondents reported having a mental health disorder when they have a family history of mental illness while 20.36% of respondents reported not having mental disorder but still had a family history of mental illness. On the other side of the spectrum, 62.33% of respondents reported not having a mental health disorder when there were no family ties to mental illness.
Now that we have observed how mental health disorder is more prominent in families with a history of mental health illness, we can move on to the effects of mental health disorder. More specifically, how does it interfere with work when treated effectively vs. not treated effectively. Mental health disorder is often overlooked by many employers so it is important to see the negative consequences when left untreated. This visualization displays how mental health disorder interferes with work across all years.You can filter on each year by clicking on a specific year in the color legend on the top left corner.
What we can see here is that when treated effectively, respondents reported having less strain in productivity with their mental health disorder. Across all years, 38.04% respondents reported `rarely` & 43.98% reported `sometimes having` mental health disorder interfering with their work when treated effectively. On the contrary, when left untreated, 59.36% of respondents reported `often` for mental health disorder interfering with their work. This illustrates that employees are recognizing the impact mental health disorder has upon their workflow and employers should take the necessary actions to aid their employees.
We can see that mental health disorder is a major issue in the workplace affecting individuals productivity, but is anything being done to help? It is important for employers to offer resources to learn more about mental health disorders and options for seeking help. In the next visualization we explore how respondents answered: "Does your employer offer resources to learn more about mental health disorders and options for seeking help?"
Across all years, 44.20% of respondents responded no to having employers offer resources & and an additional 27.14% of respondents `I don't know`. Combined that is a whooping 71.34% respondents that are neglected for mental health disorders.
Use your cursor to crossfilter the following questions from 2016 - 2019 and explore the data...