Application of Psychiatric Knowledge in the Rehabilitation Process in Return to Work.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mental Disorders
• Interventions: Behavioral: control Rehabilitation as usual; Behavioral: education

• Registration Number: NCT01989767
• Lead Sponsor: Hans Joergen Soegaard

Brief Summary

The hypothesis was that education of rehabilitation officers who were responsible for rehabilitation back to work for sick-listed individuals in screening for mental disorders and psychiatric topics would increase the rate of return to work and reduce the number of sicklisted days

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-11
• Primary Completion: 2012-10
• Study Completion: 2013-10
• Status Verified: 2013-11
• Study First Submitted: 2013-11-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-11-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-11-20
• Study First Posted: 2013-11-21
• Last Update Posted: 2013-11-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 317

Inclusion Criteria

• sick-listed and belonging to the case-load of rehabilitation officers who participated in the intervention

Exclusion Criteria

• no

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
control	control Rehabilitation as usual	Rehabilitation as usual
education	education	education of rehabilitation officers in psychiatric topics plus rehabilitation as usual

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
rate of return to work	1 year	The rate of return to work was estimated by Poisson regression and Cox regression based on the duration from the date being sicklisted until the date of return to normal work.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
number of sickness absence days	½ year	After eight weeks of continuous sickness absence the number of sickness absence days within ½ year was counted

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Psychiatric Research Unit West, Regional Psychiatric Services West; 🇩🇰 Herning, Denmark