Trial reportJournal of occupational rehabilitation2009
A participatory workplace intervention for employees with distress and lost time: a feasibility evaluation within a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of occupational rehabilitation, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 93 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Constituents of Trust in the Context of Return to Work Following a Work Disability: A Scoping Review and a Thematic Analysis.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators to implementing workplace interventions to promote mental health: qualitative evidence synthesis.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions for common mental disorders in the occupational health service: a systematic review with a narrative synthesis.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions Developed with the Intervention Mapping Protocol in Work Disability Prevention: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2019Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Workplace Interventions in Return-to-Work for Musculoskeletal, Pain-Related and Mental Health Conditions: An Update of the Evidence and Messages for Practitioners.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2018Pooled it
- Prognostic factors for return to work of employees with common mental disorders: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Pooled it
- Interventions to facilitate return to work in adults with adjustment disorders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Process Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support and Participatory Workplace Intervention to Increase the Sustainable Work Participation of People with Work Disabilities.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Trial
- Barriers and Facilitators for Implementing Motivational Interviewing as a Return to Work Intervention in a Norwegian Social Insurance Setting: A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Trial
- A case management occupational health model to facilitate earlier return to work of NHS staff with common mental health disorders: a feasibility study.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2021Trial
- Preventing sickness absence among employees with common mental disorders or stress-related symptoms at work: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a problem-solving-based intervention conducted by the Occupational Health Services.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2020Trial
- Employees' Perceptions of Social Norms as a Result of Implementing the Participatory Approach at Supervisor Level: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2017Trial
- Process Evaluation of a Participatory Supportive Return to Work Program for Workers Without a Permanent Employment Contract, Sick-Listed Due to a Common Mental Disorder.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2017Trial
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- Implementation of the participatory approach for supervisors to prevent sick leave: a process evaluation.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2016Trial
- Implementation of the participatory approach to increase supervisors' self-efficacy in supporting employees at risk for sick leave; design of a randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2013Trial
- A participatory return-to-work program for temporary agency workers and unemployed workers sick-listed due to musculoskeletal disorders: a process evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2012Trial
- Individual Placement and Support and Participatory Workplace Intervention for people with work disabilities - experiences of job coaches.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Job satisfaction among medical officers working in Delhi.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Aligning stakeholders' understandings of the return-to-work process: a qualitative study on workplace meetings in inpatient multimodal occupational rehabilitation.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionLittle is known about feasibility and acceptability of return to work (RTW) interventions for mental health problems. RTW for mental health problems is more complicated than for musculoskeletal problems due to stigmatization at the workplace. A participatory workplace intervention was developed in which an employee and supervisor identify and prioritize obstacles and solutions for RTW guided by a RTW coordinator. This paper is a feasibility study of this innovative intervention for employees with distress. The aims of this study were to describe the reach and extent of implementation of the workplace intervention, the satisfaction and expectations of all stakeholders, and the intention to use the workplace intervention in the future.
methodsEligible for this study were employees who had been on sick leave from regular work for 2-8 weeks with distress. Data were collected from the employees, their supervisors, RTW coordinators, and occupational physicians by means of standardized matrices and questionnaires at baseline and 3 months follow-up. Reach, implementation, satisfaction, expectations, and maintenance regarding the workplace intervention were described.
resultsOf the 56 employees with distress eligible to receive the workplace intervention, 40 employees, their supervisors and RTW coordinators actually participated in the intervention. They identified 151 obstacles for RTW mostly related to job design, communication, mental workload and person-related stress factors. The 281 consensus-based solutions identified were mostly related to job design, communication and training. Of those solutions, 72% was realized at the evaluation with the employee and supervisor. Overall, employees, supervisors and occupational health professionals were satisfied with the workplace intervention and occupational health professionals rated it with a 7.1. Time-investment was the only barrier for implementation reported by the occupational health professionals.
conclusionsThe results of this study indicate a high feasibility for a broad implementation of a participatory workplace intervention for employees with distress and lost time, and their supervisors.
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