Trial reportBMC public health2014
Long-term stability of return to work after a workplace-oriented intervention for patients on sick leave for burnout.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Return-to-work interventions for sick-listed employees with burnout: a systematic review.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Combined Interventions to Reduce Burnout Complaints and Promote Return to Work: A Systematic Review of Effectiveness and Mediators of Change.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of adding early cooperation and a work-place dialogue meeting to primary care management for sick-listed patients with stress-related disorders: CO-WORK-CARE-Stress - a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2024Trial
- Does employer involvement in primary health care enhance return to work for patients with stress-related mental disorders? a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC primary care · 2023Trial
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- Involving the employer to enhance return to work among patients with stress-related mental disorders - study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial in Swedish primary health care.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Effect of traditional yoga, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy, on health related quality of life: a randomized controlled trial on patients on sick leave because of burnout.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2018Trial
- The Effectiveness of an Intervention to Enhance Cooperation Between Sick-Listed Employees and Their Supervisors (COSS).Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2016Trial
- Healthcare consumption among patients with stress-related exhaustion: a register-based study in Swedish primary care.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- Facilitating Return to Work through a Broader Perspective on Vocational Rehabilitation: Insights from Patients with Stress-Related Disorders.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Workplace Adjustments and Sick Leave Duration Among Individuals with Stress-Related Disorders: A Longitudinal Register Follow-up in Sweden.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Predicting Emotional Exhaustion with Multimodal Sensor Data During Return-to-Work Trajectories: A 6-Month Longitudinal Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Experiences of returning to work after sick leave due to exhaustion disorder: a qualitative content analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Assessing the Effect of a Rehabilitation Intervention on Exhaustion Disorders, Depression, and Return to Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Symptoms, work situation and work functioning 10 years after rehabilitation of stress-induced exhaustion disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Return-to-Work Interventions for Individuals with Work-Related Mental Health Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Healthcare utilisation among patients with stress-induced exhaustion disorder treated with a multimodal rehabilitation programme - a longitudinal observational study.BMC psychiatry · 2022Observational
- Exhaustion disorder: scoping review of research on a recently introduced stress-related diagnosis.BJPsych open · 2022Article
- Promoting Factors to Stay at Work Among Employees With Common Mental Health Problems: A Multiple-Stakeholder Concept Mapping Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Self-reported changes in work situation - a cross-sectional study of patients 7 years after treatment for stress-related exhaustion.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s saw a rapid increase in long-term sick leave in Sweden, primarily due to mental illness and often related to job burnout. This led to an urge for effective treatment programs that could prevent the often long sick leaves. In 2010 we presented a newly developed work-place intervention method, showing that 89% of the intervention group had returned to work at a 1.5 year follow-up, compared to 73% of the control group. The main aim of this study was to assess the long-term stability of these promising results.
methodsSick leave registry data from the Regional Social Insurance Office were analyzed for an additional year (50 weeks) beyond the original 1.5 year period (80 weeks). Data from 68 matched pairs of intervention participants (IP) and controls were available. The proportions of participants being on full-time sick leave versus having returned to work to any extent were computed for every 10th week. Generalized estimating equations were used with GROUP (IP versus controls) as between-subjects factor, WEEKS and AGE as covariates, and return-to-work (RTW) as dependent variable. Significant differences (Wald χ2 with α ≤ .05) was followed up with polynomial contrasts. Individual relapses to higher degrees of sick leave (e.g. from 50% to 100%) and whether partial RTW led to later full-time RTW, were also analyzed.
resultsThe omnibus test over all 130 weeks showed a GROUP*WEEKS interaction effect (p = .02), indicating differential group developments in RTW, though similarly high at week 130 in both groups with 82.4% of the IP and 77.9% of the controls having RTW (p = .22; χ2-test). A significant interaction with age led to separate analyses of the younger and older subgroups, indicating a stable pattern of superior RTW only among younger IP (week 130: 88.6% vs. 69.7%, p = .054; χ2-test). There was no group difference in relapses into increased degree of sick leave. Part-time sick leave did not predict a later stable full-time RTW.
conclusionsThe previously reported improvement in RTW with the newly developed workplace-oriented intervention showed a long-term stability only among younger participants.
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