ArticleBMC public health2009
Can we enhance the ability to return to work among workers with stress-related disorders?
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- Long-term follow-up of participants with mental ill health in the Danish return-to-work program: A secondary analysis of a controlled trial.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2025Article
- "I'm So Tired": Fatigue as a Persistent Physical Symptom among Working People Experiencing Exhaustion Disorder.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Return to Work for Mental Ill-Health: A Scoping Review Exploring the Impact and Role of Return-to-Work Coordinators.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2020Article
- The association between having a coordinator and return to work: the rapid-return-to-work cohort study.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Role of stress in modulation of skin neurogenic inflammation.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019Article
- The impact of lifestyle factors on evolution of atopic dermatitis: An alternative approach.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2019Review
- Towards a preventive strategy for complaints of arm, neck and/or shoulder (CANS): the role of help seeking behaviour.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Implementation of a coordinated and tailored return-to-work intervention for employees with mental health problems.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2012Article
- Workplace-based work disability prevention interventions for workers with common mental health conditions: a review of the literature.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2012Review
- Towards a new definition of return-to-work outcomes in common mental disorders from a multi-stakeholder perspective.PloS one · 2012Article
- Experience of health complaints and help seeking behavior in employees screened for depressive complaints and risk of future sickness absence.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2010Article
- Effect of a multidisciplinary stress treatment programme on the return to work rate for persons with work-related stress. A non-randomized controlled study from a stress clinic.BMC public health · 2010Article
- Return to work after a workplace-oriented intervention for patients on sick-leave for burnout--a prospective controlled study.BMC public health · 2010Article
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Abstract
backgroundStress-related disorders are widespread and responsible for high societal costs e.g. sick leave payment and reduced productivity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an intervention program on return to work or labour market.
methodsIn a controlled interventional study design we compared 72 emotionally distressed patients, who received support during 2006, with 89 control individuals who had also been sick listed for emotional distress. Intervention was provided by trained psychologists and social workers who were in continuous dialog with the patients, providing counselling e.g. on decisions concerning resumption of work, support to families, participation in meetings with the workplace. Basically, the controls and the intervention group share the same access to welfare benefits. The main outcome was time to return to labour market (TTR).
resultsThe baseline characteristics were similar in the two groups. There were no differences in the rate of resuming work between the two groups. About 80% in both groups had returned to the labour market after one year.
conclusionAn intervention program with psychological stress management and case management did not improve work capability compared to usual care. Work resumption as a single outcome probably is an insensitive parameter of intervention management quality, and should be supplemented by other data on different aspects of treatment.
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