Early Matched Care For Australia Post Employees (EMCAP) with work-related injuries and at risk of delayed return to work.

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Musculoskeletal Injury; Psychological Wellbeing; Musculoskeletal - Other muscular and skeletal disorders; Mental Health - Other mental health disorders

• Registration Number: ACTRN12620000041954
• Lead Sponsor: Australia Post Group

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-01-21
• Last Update Posted: 3 February 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 104

Inclusion Criteria

The inclusion criteria are the worker:
•Must be part of the Australia Post Group (Australia Post and Star Track)
•Have a current workers compensation claim
•Have a work-related injury
•Must have sustained the injury within four weeks
•Have a score greater than 48/100 on the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire - Short Form (*ÖMPSQ-SF).
•Has adequate English to not require an interpreter to complete the survey.

Exclusion Criteria

The exclusion criteria are:
•Having a primary psychological injury
•Having a catastrophic injury (e.g. spinal cord injury)
•Being a casual, contracted or labour-hire worker who could be job detached (where their contract has expired and/or there is no job to return to)
•Having concurrent claims where the worker already has an open claim when the new injury occurs.
•If the worker’s rehabilitation case is being managed external to Australia Post

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> Duration of time off work which will be assessed via employment records.<br> [12 months post commencement of the intervention.]<br> ;Cost associated with the injury (health related expenses) which will be assessed by the Employment records. It is routine process of Employment Assistance Program at the Australia Post to keep a record of all costs associated with a injured post worker. [12 months post commencement of the intervention.]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in emotional distress assessed by Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21; Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995). [12 months post commencement of the intervention.];Change in Pain and pain-related disability assessed by the Brief pain Inventory (BPI; Cleeland et al., 1994) [12 months post commencement of the intervention.];Change in self-efficacy due to pain assessed by the Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ; Nicholas et al., 2007) [12 months post commencement of the intervention.];Change in self-rated health assessed as 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) on a 1 to 5 self-report scale[12 months post commencement of the intervention.];Change in psychosocial quality of work assessed by Psychosocial Job Quality Scale (Butterworth et al., 2011).[12 months post commencement of the intervention.]