Cross-Disciplinary Workplace Intervention Strategy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Back Pain; Neck Pain; Musculoskeletal Abnormalities

• Registration Number: NCT00369135
• Lead Sponsor: Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail

Brief Summary

Sickness absenteeism caused by MSDs is a persistent and expensive health challenge in all industrial countries including Switzerland. Despite much progress as to the cause and prevention of MSDs, they continue to be some of the most prevalent and challenging health problems with respect to the work-place and to socio-economic burden.

To improve the situation, several recent reviews recommended interventions based on the bio-psycho-social model. Work-hardening and industrial rehabilitation programs focused more on the in balance between physical and mental demands of work on one side and capacities of the individual on the other side. Therefore we propose to merge the two models into one. The result is an interdisciplinary intervention strategy witch includes work hardening, medical trainings, a cognitive behavioural approach and work place intervention.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-03
• Study First Submitted: 2006-08-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2006-08-25
• Study First Posted: 2006-08-29
• Status Verified: 2008-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2008-11-20
• Last Update Posted: 2008-11-21
• Study Completion: 2009-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• Employees on sick leave because of non-specific back and/or neck/shoulder pain
• actual unable to work and continuous or cumulative (totalized) work incapa- city in the past 6 monts
• ≥ 20 working days 100% absence from work or
• ≥ 40 working days 80 to 99% absence from work or
• ≥ 60 working days 50 to 79% absence from work and
• not older than 58 level of employment ≥ 50%
• no longer than 6 monts absencer from work (100% unable to work)

Exclusion Criteria

• Specific diagnosis such as infection, neoplasm, metastasis osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fracture and inflammatory process or other conditions for which valid diagnoses had been demonstrated either in the anamnesis, records or the clinical examination
• Postoperative health condition with prohibited physical load
• Major co-morbidity which may determine return to work in a clearly stronger way then the MSD itself such as a major depression, psychosis, heavy drug or alcohol disease or instable cardiac or pulmonary disease
• Predominant specific shoulder pathology in "neck-shoulder pain"

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sick-day saving, work capacity, economic variables	one year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Functional performance, pain, general health, variables related to coping, believes, anxiety, depression	one year

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institut universitaire romand de Santè au Travail; 🇨🇭 Lausanne, Switzerland