Supporting supervisors to improve return-to-work outcomes of injured or ill workers

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mental Health - Depression; Mental Health - Anxiety; Musculoskeletal disorders; Musculoskeletal - Other muscular and skeletal disorders; mental disorders

• Registration Number: ACTRN12619000166178
• Lead Sponsor: Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government, PM&C

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-02-05
• Study Completion: 2019-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 10 February 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 176

Inclusion Criteria

The key inclusion criteria are employees, managers and case managers involved in a return to work process at participating agencies who are aged over 18 years and sickness absence for longer than ten days (of the employee).
Injured/ill employees who require a RTW process from the intervention launch date, along with relevant managers, will be in scope for the study as treatment group participants. Managers and employees with recent experience of the standard return to work process prior to the intervention will be included as a comparison group.

Exclusion Criteria

Employees who are in extreme physical or mental distress
Employees who are involved in challenging relationships with their managers (if alternative managers cannot be used for intervention delivery due to the nature of the situation)
Note: case managers will be able to provide further information on who these employees are in order to exclude them from the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Return to work status as assessed by the administrative data (Human resource department statistics) on whether a person has returned from their leave. This is a binary outcome variable. [RTW status one month after enrolment];Time to return to work. This is assessed using administrative data (i.e. the amount of leave taken) (Human Resource Department statistics)[At the commencement of the intervention period for the comparison group and at the end of the intervention phase for the treatment group]