Can an early, tailored return to work management intervention focused on support to cancer patients undergoing treatment and their workplaces enhance the readiness for return to work and the return to work rate?

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Eligible patients are newly diagnosed with breast, gastro-intestinal, head and neck, testis, ovarian or cervix cancer, and are referred to chemotherapy or radiotherapy.; Cancer

• Registration Number: ISRCTN50753764
• Lead Sponsor: Public Health and Quality Improvement, Central Denmark Region (Denmark)

Brief Summary

2015 protocol in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26215644 2020 results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33287597/ (added 05/03/2021)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-08-21
• Study Completion: 2015-05-06
• Last Update Posted: 15 March 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 347

Inclusion Criteria

1. 18-60 years of age
2. Place of residence: Silkeborg Municipality or Randers Municipality
3. Participants are permanent or temporary employed (with at least 6 months left by the time of inclusion) and possibly sick-listed at the start of the intervention.
4. Patients diagnosed with breast, gastro-intestinal, head and neck, testis, ovarian or cervix cancer.
5. Patients referred to chemotherapy or radiotherapy in the oncology ward at the Aarhus University Hospital.

The control patients have identical inclusion criteria except for place of residence.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who cannot speak or read Danish.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The primary outcome is RTW rates among cancer survivors in the intervention group compared with the control group. Return to work is defined by at least 4 consecutive weeks of no social transfer payments or attending a modified job called flexi job. The outcome is identified in a national register on weekly public transfer payments called the DREAM-register. Four consecutive weeks of no transfer payment is considered to be equivalent to RTW along with four consecutive weeks of transfer payment equivalent to attending in a flexi job.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The secondary outcomes are whether socioeconomic status or co-morbidity is modifying the effect of the intervention on RTW. Socioeconomic status is defined by marital status, having children, educational level, employment status, last year income, work position, whether being in a management position, whether ones housing is owned, and ethnicity. The information is identified in Statistics Denmark. Co-morbidity is defined by the Charlson-index and identified in the medical records at Aarhus University Hospital.