Every five years the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, an autonomous research organization, takes the pulse of European workers' mental and physical health.

Results from its most recent survey—the Fourth European Working Conditions Survey—are now available. Some of the results may be of interest to psychiatrists.

Workplace bullying in the United States, by comparison, appears to be around 25 percent, a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health survey revealed (Psychiatric News, July 21, 2006).

"The Fourth European Working Conditions Survey" is posted at<www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2006/98/en/2/ef0698en.pdf>.▪