Return to Work After a Workplace-oriented Intervention for Patients on Sick Leave Due to Burnout

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Professional Burnout
• Interventions: Behavioral: Workplace dialogue; Other: Care as usual

• Registration Number: NCT01039168
• Lead Sponsor: Region Skane

Brief Summary

The study aims to evaluate the effect on return to work of a workplace intervention with patients being treated for burnout. The intervention intends to reduce job-person mismatch through patient-supervisor communication.The hypothesis is that the intervention group will show a more favourable outcome than a control group with respect to return to work.

Detailed Description

Participants are consecutively recruited in co-operation with regional social insurance offices (RSIOs) in the two southern counties of Sweden. Persons accepting participation are clinically examined and interviewed of the course of events leading up to the burnout and the patient's expectations of changes necessary to facilitate return to work are recorded. The patient´s supervisor is then interviewed at the workplace, responding to the same questions on perceived main causes of the subordinate's sick leave and changes necessary to facilitate return to work. Finally, the core intervention takes place, namely a dialogue being initiated between the patient and the supervisor to find solutions to facilitate return to work. Out of those who do not want to participate, without giving any specific reason for that, a control group is matched by length and degree of sick leave at the time of the intervention.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2003-11
• Primary Completion: 2009-09
• Study Completion: 2009-09
• Study First Submitted: 2009-12-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-12-22
• Study First Posted: 2009-12-24
• Status Verified: 2024-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-03-13
• Last Update Posted: 2024-03-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 76

Inclusion Criteria

• employment
• sick leave at lest half time 2-6 months due to work related burnout
• previously healthy

Exclusion Criteria

• other somatic or psychiatric disease explaining the symptoms

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Workplace dialogue	Workplace dialogue	Clinical examination and dialogue with supervisor to find solutions to reduce job-person mismatch and facilitate return to work
Care as usual	Care as usual	No intervention besides of the care as usual being available for the patient

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Return to work from sick leave	Up to 1,5 years post intervention completion

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-rated health measures (only in the intervention group)	Up to 1,5 years post intervention completion

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital; 🇸🇪 Lund, Sweden