ArticleJournal of occupational rehabilitation2006
Return to work expectation predicts work in chronic musculoskeletal and behavioral health disorders: prospective study with clinical implications.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Common Psychosocial Factors Predicting Return to Work After Common Mental Disorders, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Cancers: A Review of Reviews Supporting a Cross-Disease Approach.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2018Pooled it
- Views and Experiences of Persons with Chronic Diseases about Strategies that Aim to Integrate and Re-Integrate Them into Work: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Factors associated with return to work among people on work absence due to long-term neck or back pain: a narrative systematic review.BMJ open · 2017Pooled it
- Disease-generic factors of work participation of workers with a chronic disease: a systematic review.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2015Pooled it
- Measures of patients' expectations about recovery: a systematic review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2015Pooled it
- Improved Expectations About Length of Sick Leave During Occupational Rehabilitation Is Associated with Increased Work Participation.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2019Trial
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- Development of a screening tool predicting the transition from acute to chronic low back pain for patients in a GP setting: protocol of a multinational prospective cohort study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2008Trial
- Trajectories of school absenteeism in adolescents with recurrent pain: predictors and distal outcomes.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Return to Work Status and Influencing Factors Among Young and Middle-Aged Patients with Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection After Cardiac Surgery: A Random Forest Model Analysis.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
- Return-to-Work Predictions for Chinese Patients With Occupational Upper Extremity Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- A Systematic Search and Review of Questionnaires Measuring Individual psychosocial Factors Predicting Return to Work After Musculoskeletal and Common Mental Disorders.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Review
- Identifying Expectations of Delayed Return to Work in Patients with Prostate Cancer at the Beginning of a Cancer Rehabilitation Program.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Effects of a vocational rehabilitation programme on return to work among sick-listed primary health care patients: a population-based matched, case-control study.BMC family practice · 2020Article
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- Patients' return-to-work expectancy relates to their beliefs about their physician's opinion regarding return to work volition and ability.Journal of pain research · 2019Article
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- Exposure to different lengths of sick leave and subsequent work absence among young adults.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Vocational rehabilitation program evaluation: comparison group challenges and the role of unmeasured return-to-work expectations.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2014Article
- Injured workers' assessment of vocational rehabilitation services before and after retraining.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2014Article
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Abstract
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designProspective cohort study with 18-month follow-up.
objectiveTo investigate if long-term sick listed persons' own predictions of their future return to work (RTW) have an impact on their RTW when controlling for other established factors.
methodPostal questionnaires at baseline were sent to persons who had been on sick leave for more than 90 days, and were employed in five municipalities and four county councils in Sweden. A follow-up regarding their RTW was performed 18 months later.
resultsAfter 18 months 135 out of 508 persons (27%) had returned to work, full or part-time. In a multivariate logistic regression, the sick listed persons' own prediction of their RTW proved to be highly significant (OR=8.28, 95% CI: 3.31-20.69). Only six out of 132 persons with a negative view of their RTW did return to wok. Other predictive factors that were found for RTW were: being on sick leave for a period of less than 1 year (OR=2.09, 95% CI: 1.19-3.67), having less pain than persons in the quartile with most pain (OR=2.65, 95% CI: 1.21-5.81), perceiving that one was welcome back to work (OR=1.98, 95% CI: 1.10-3.58), and being under 55 years of age (OR=2.37, 95% CI: 1.07-5.23 for age between 45 and 54 years and the same trend for age below 45 years OR=1.85, 95% CI: 0.82-4.20).
conclusionPersons with a positive prediction should get help to realise their potential for RTW. Offering traditional rehabilitation measures to a person with a negative prediction of his/her RTW, could be a waste of resources if done ahead of improving self-confidence and view of what is possible. The problems in this group might decrease or be easier to handle if decisions about the future are taken within a year.
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