ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2016
Subjective health complaints, functional ability, fear avoidance beliefs, and days on sickness benefits after work rehabilitation - a mediation model.
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- Person-related factors associated with work participation in employees with health problems: a systematic review.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2018Pooled it
- Self-rated work ability predicts return to work after occupational rehabilitation.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences, subsequent negative life events, and their impact on health in occupational rehabilitation patients: a mixed-methods study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024Article
- Sustained Attention and Working Memory Predict the Number of Days on Health-Related Benefits in the Year Following Occupational Rehabilitation.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Occupational Rehabilitation Is Associated With Improvements in Cognitive Functioning.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- [Clinical-demographic factors associated with fear-avoidance in subjects with non-specific chronic low back pain in Primary Care: secondary analysis of intervention study].Atencion primaria · 2019Article
- How do occupational rehabilitation clinicians approach participants on long-term sick leave in order to facilitate return to work? A focus group study.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- Causal inference in multi-state models-sickness absence and work for 1145 participants after work rehabilitation.BMC public health · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundLong-term sick leave and withdrawal from working life is a concern in western countries. In Norway, comprehensive inpatient work rehabilitation may be offered to sick listed individuals at risk of long-term absence from work. Knowledge about prognostic factors for work outcomes after long-term sick leave and work rehabilitation is still limited. The aim of this study was to test a mediation model for various hypothesized biopsychosocial predictors of continued sick leave after inpatient work rehabilitation.
methodsOne thousand one hundred fifty-five participants on long-term sick leave from eight different work rehabilitation clinics answered comprehensive questionnaires at arrival to the clinic, and were followed with official register data on sickness benefits for 3 years. Structural equation models were conducted, with days on sickness benefits after work rehabilitation as the outcome.
resultsFear avoidance beliefs for work mediated the relation between both musculoskeletal complaints and education on days on sickness benefits after work rehabilitation. The relation between musculoskeletal complaints and fear avoidance beliefs for work was furthermore fully mediated by poor physical function. Previous sick leave had a strong independent effect on continued sick leave after work rehabilitation. Fear avoidance beliefs for work did not mediate the small effect of pseudoneurological complaints on continued sick leave. Poor coping/interaction ability was neither related to continued sick leave nor fear avoidance beliefs for work.
conclusionsThe mediation model was partly supported by the data, and provides some possible new insight into how fear avoidance beliefs for work and functional ability may intervene with subjective health complaints and days on sickness benefits after work rehabilitation.
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