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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020

Functional Interviewing Was Associated With Improved Agreement Among Expert Psychiatrists in Estimating Claimant Work Capacity: A Secondary Data Analysis of Real-Life Work Disability Evaluations.

David Y von Allmen, Sarah Kedzia, Raphael Dettwiler, Nicole Vogel, Regina Kunz, Wout E L de Boer

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David Y von AllmenEvidence-based Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Sarah KedziaEvidence-based Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Raphael DettwilerEvidence-based Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Nicole VogelEvidence-based Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Regina KunzEvidence-based Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Wout E L de BoerEvidence-based Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
University Hospital of Basel · CHUniversity of Basel · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveFunctional evaluations establish functional and work (in-)capacities in the context of disability assessments and are increasingly recommended as a modern technique for work disability assessments. The RELY (Reliable disability EvaLuation in psychiatrY)-studies introduced semi-structured functional interviews in real-life assessments of claimants with mental disorders for evaluating their self-perceived health-related limitations and for investigating the reproducibility of work capacity (WC) estimates. Functional interviews elicit claimants' self-perceptions about their work-related limitations and capacities in the labour market. This secondary data analysis explored the coverage of work-related key topics in these interviews and investigated whether interviews with high coverage (versus low coverage) of work-related topics resulted in better reproducibility of WC estimates among experts.

methodsThirty video-taped RELY-assessments underwent a content analysis along a predefined framework for functional interviewing, including the claimant's self-perceived work limitations and work-related health complaints as centrepieces of functional interviewing. Following transcription, interviews were segmented into coding units. Coding units were allocated to the five steps with 19 key topics of the framework. Enquiry into key topics was ascertained by summing the functional coding units per key topic. Median split grouped the interviews into high and low coverage of functional topics and compared them for inter-rater reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient, ICC) and inter-rater agreement (standard error of measurement, SEM).

resultsInterviews were broken down in 40,010 coding units, 31% of which addressed functional topics. Enquiries in self-perceived work limitations and work-related health complaints were sparse (coding units median

conclusionsContent analysis showed little enquiry by experts on claimants' self-perceived activity limitations and work-related capacity. The association between interviews with higher functional coverage and better expert agreement on the claimants' remaining WC requires confirmation in prospective studies.

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disability evaluationevaluation studiesevidence-based medicineindependent medical evaluationInternational Classification of Functioning, Disability and Healthmental disorderswork capacity evaluationwork participation

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PMID32719624
PMCPMC7350701
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