Trial reportJournal of occupational rehabilitation2008
The effect of a job placement and support program for workers with musculoskeletal injuries: a randomized control trial (RCT) study.
Trial report in Journal of occupational rehabilitation, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Elements of Return-to-Work Interventions for Workers on Long-Term Sick Leave: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- The effects of supported employment interventions in populations of people with conditions other than severe mental health: a systematic review.Primary health care research & development · 2021Pooled it
- Supported employment: Meta-analysis and review of randomized controlled trials of individual placement and support.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- Return-to-work coordination programmes for improving return to work in workers on sick leave.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Workplace interventions for neck pain in workers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- Examination of Adaptations to the Evidence Based Supported Employment Model: Individual Placement and Support.Administration and policy in mental health · 2023Article
- Return to work factors and vocational rehabilitation interventions for long-term, partially disabled workers: a modified Delphi study among vocational rehabilitation professionals.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Vocational rehabilitation and return to work: integrative review.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMT · 2019Article
- Prediction of return to work outcomes under an injured worker case management program.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2012Article
- An emerging occupational rehabilitation system in the People's Republic of China.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2011Article
- Developing a Core Set to describe functioning in vocational rehabilitation using the international classification of functioning, disability, and health (ICF).Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2010Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis is a randomized clinical trial (RCT) to investigate the efficacy of a job placement and support program designed for workers with musculoskeletal injuries and having difficulties in resuming the work role. The program was planned to help injured workers to successfully return to work (RTW) by overcoming the difficulties and problems during the process of job seeking and sustaining a job using a case management approach. METHODOLOGY: A total of 66 injured workers were recruited and randomly assigned into the job placement and support group (PS group) or the self-placement group (SP group). A three-week job placement and support program was given to subjects in the PS group while subjects in the control group (SP group) were only given advice on job placement at a workers' health center. The PS program was comprised of an individual interview, vocational counseling, job preparation training, and assisted placement using the case management approach. The Chinese Lam Assessment of Stages of Employment Readiness (C-LASER), the Chinese State Trait and Anxiety Inventory (C-STAI), and the SF-36 were the outcome measures for the two groups before and after the training program to observe the changes in subjects' work readiness status, emotional status and their health related quality of life pre- and post-training program. The rate of return to work was measured for both groups of subjects after the training program.
resultsThe results indicated that the rate of success in RTW (73%) was significantly higher in the job placement (PS) group than that of the self-placement (SP) group (51.6%) with P < 0.05. Significant differences were also found in C-STAI (P < 0.05), SF-36 (P < 0.05) and C-LASER scores on action (P < 0.05) between the two groups.
conclusionThe job placement (PS) program appeared to have enhanced the employability of injured workers. Workers who participated in the program also showed higher levels of work readiness and emotional status in coping with their work injuries.
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