Trial reportJournal of occupational rehabilitation2013
Effect of peer-based low back pain information and reassurance at the workplace on sick leave: a cluster randomized trial.
Trial report in Journal of occupational rehabilitation, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00741650 (Ibedrift- Health Related Coping. A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing a Worksite Educational Intervention With or Without Referral to Treatment as Usual.), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Ibedrift- Health Related Coping. A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing a Worksite Educational Intervention With or Without Referral to Treatment as Usual.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Group-based healthy lifestyle workplace interventions for shift workers: a systematic review.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2018Pooled it
- Return-to-work coordination programmes for improving return to work in workers on sick leave.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Impact of an intersectoral universal workplace intervention on health related quality of life and wellbeing in a pragmatic cluster randomised trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effect of Reassuring Information About Musculoskeletal and Mental Health Complaints at the Workplace: A Cluster Randomized Trial of the atWork Intervention.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2019Trial
- Young adults at risk of early work disability: who are they?BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Can group-based reassuring information alter low back pain behavior? A cluster-randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2017Trial
- Protocol for the atWork trial: a randomised controlled trial of a workplace intervention targeting subjective health complaints.BMC public health · 2016Trial
- Reduction in sick leave by a workplace educational low back pain intervention: A cluster randomized controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2016Trial
- Workplace-Based Education Interventions for Managing Metabolic Syndrome in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Realist Review.Public health challenges · 2024Review
- Group-level workplace interventions to improve mental health in low control, high-demand office-based jobs. A scoping review.Annals of work exposures and health · 2024Article
- Development of the workplace inclusion questionnaire (WIQ).Scandinavian journal of public health · 2022Article
- Comparing the New Interdisciplinary Health in Work Intervention With Conventional Monodisciplinary Welfare Interventions at Norwegian Workplaces: Protocol for a Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Experiences of Patient-Led Chronic Pain Peer Support Groups After Pain Management Programs: A Qualitative Study.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Should musicians play in pain?British journal of pain · 2021Article
- A scoping review to ascertain the parameters for an evidence synthesis of psychological interventions to improve work and wellbeing outcomes among employees with chronic pain.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- PALS: peer support for community dwelling older people with chronic low back pain: a feasibility and acceptability study.Physiotherapy · 2020Article
- Workplace inclusion of employees with back pain and mental health problems: A focus group study about employees' experiences.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2019Article
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- Work and Mental Complaints: Are Response Outcome Expectancies More Important Than Work Conditions and Number of Subjective Health Complaints?Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2017Article
- Exploring peer-mentoring for community dwelling older adults with chronic low back pain: a qualitative study.Physiotherapy · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeTo evaluate whether information and reassurance about low back pain (LBP) given to employees at the workplace could reduce sick leave.
methodsA Cluster randomized controlled trial with 135 work units of about 3,500 public sector employees in two Norwegian municipalities, randomized into two intervention groups; Education and peer support (EPS) (n = 45 units), education and "peer support and access to an outpatient clinic" (EPSOC) (n = 48 units), and a control group (n = 42 units). Both interventions consisted of educational meetings based on a "non-injury model" and a "peer adviser" appointed by colleagues. Employees in the EPSOC group had access to an outpatient clinic for medical examination and further education. The control group received no intervention. The main outcome was sick leave based on municipal records. Secondary outcomes were self-reported pain, pain related fear of movement, coping, and beliefs about LBP from survey data of 1,746 employees (response rate about 50 %).
resultsEPS reduced sick leave by 7 % and EPSOC reduced sick leave by 4 % during the intervention year, while sick leave in the control group was increased by 7 % during the same period. Overall, Rate Ratios (RR) were statistically significant for EPSOC (RR = .84 (C.I = 0.71-.99) but not EPS (RR = .92 (C.I = 0.78-1.09)) in a mixed Poisson regression analysis. Faulty beliefs about LBP were reduced in both intervention groups.
conclusionsEducational meetings, combined with peer support and access to an outpatient clinic, were effective in reducing sick leave in public sector employees.
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