SynthesisJournal of occupational rehabilitation2018
Common Psychosocial Factors Predicting Return to Work After Common Mental Disorders, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Cancers: A Review of Reviews Supporting a Cross-Disease Approach.
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70 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Elements of Return-to-Work Interventions for Workers on Long-Term Sick Leave: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Work ability and return-to-work of patients with post-COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of work-related interventions for return to work in people on sick leave: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Return to work of transgender people: A systematic review through the blender of occupational health.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Well-Being at Work after Return to Work (RTW): A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- What characterises work and workplaces that retain their employees following acquired brain injury? Systematic review.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions to support return to work for people with coronary heart disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Changes in perceived psychosocial working conditions after psychotherapeutic consultation at work - exploratory post-hoc analyses from a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- Associations between Psychosocial Working Conditions and Work-Specific Self-Efficacy Beliefs Among Employees Receiving Psychotherapeutic Consultation at Work.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Trial
- Effectiveness of 'motivational interviewing' on sick leave: a randomized controlled trial in a social insurance setting.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Trial
- 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
- Determinants of Sustainable Return to Work After Burnout or Depression: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Scoping review of return to work in patients with heart failure.Heart failure reviews · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic Symptoms in Electronic Health Records of Sick-Listed Employees.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Managing Complexity: Manager-Stakeholder Communication, Relational Dynamics, and the Dual Nature of RTW Communication.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Barriers for return to work as an iatrogenic effect of sickness absence: a proposed conceptual framework and questionnaire based on a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Differences in perceived return-to-work barriers between manual and nonmanual workers.Journal of occupational health · 2026Article
- Understanding sustainable return to work during gender transition, a (mixed method) diary-based single-case study of a transgender woman: Spiegel im spiegel.International journal of transgender health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Purpose This systematic review aimed at identifying the common psychosocial factors that facilitate or hinder the return to work (RTW) after a sick leave due to common mental disorders (CMDs), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), or cancers (CAs). Methods We conducted a review of reviews searching 13 databases from 1994 to 2016 for peer-reviewed, quantitative, cohort studies investigating factors influencing RTW after a CMD, CVD, or CA. Then, for each disease we identified additional cohort studies published after the date of the latest review included. Data were extracted following a three steps best-evidence synthesis method: the extraction of results about each predictor from studies within each single review and in the additional papers; the synthesis of results across the reviews and additional papers investigating the same disease; and the synthesis of results across the diseases. Results The search strategy identified 1029 unique records from which 27 reviews and 75 additional studies underwent comprehensive review. 14 reviews and 32 additional cohort studies met eligibility criteria. Specific predictors of RTW with different levels of evidence are provided for each disease. We found four common facilitators of RTW (job control, work ability, perceived good health and high socioeconomic status), and six barriers of RTW (job strain, anxiety, depression, comorbidity, older age and low education). Conclusion This is the first review to systematically analyze commonalities in RTW after CMDs, CVDs, or CAs. The common factors identified indicate that the RTW process presents many similarities across various diseases, thus supporting the validity of a cross-disease approach.
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