Professional physician-claimant communication during work disability assessments.
Completed
- Conditions
- physician-patient communicationwork disability from a medical perspectivearts-patiëntcommunicatiearbeidsongeschiktheidsbeoordeling
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON25462
- Lead Sponsor
- - Primair: VU University Medical Center, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, department of Public and Occupational Health; Research Centre for Insurance Medicine/Kenniscentrum Verzekeringsgeneeskunde van AMC-UMCG-UWV-VUmc (KCVG).- Secundair: Dutch Institute of Employee Benefit Schemes (UWV), Department ‘Sociaal Medische Zaken’ and Department ‘Centraal Expertise Centrum/Opleidingen AG’; TNO Quality of Life, Hoofddorp.
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Inclusion Criteria
Social insurance physicians, working for the Dutch Institute for Employee Benefit Schemes (UWV), and performing face-to-face assessment interviews.
Exclusion Criteria
Social insurance physicians performing staff/executive functions.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Knowledge about communication in medical disability assessment interviews (questionnaire with true or false questions);<br /><br>2. Competence concerning communication in medical disability assessment interviews (questionnaire with open questions concerning a written casuistry example).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Determinants of physicians’ communication behaviour, i.e. attitudes, social influence, self-efficacy, intentions, self-perceived barriers, and self-perceived skills, all with regard to physician-claimant communication during medical disability assessments (questionnaire with 10-point scale items);<br /><br>2. Physicians’ evaluation of the training methods and the course’s contents (questionnaire with 10-point scale items).<br>