1. Effects of adding early cooperation and a work-place dialogue meeting to primary care management for sick-listed patients with stress-related disorders: CO-WORK-CARE-Stress – a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.
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Björkelund, C., Petersson, E.-L., Svenningsson, I., Saxvik, A., Wiegner, L., Hensing, G., Jonsdottir, I. H., Larsson, M., Wikberg, C., Ariai, N., Nejati, S., and Hange, D.
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TREATMENT of psychological stress , *MENTAL illness treatment , *SICK leave , *WORK capacity evaluation , *RESEARCH funding , *WORK environment , *PRIMARY health care , *REHABILITATION , *STATISTICAL sampling , *RANDOMIZED controlled trials , *ANXIETY , *ALLIED health personnel , *ADJUSTMENT disorders , *PATIENT-centered care , *QUALITY of life , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *COOPERATIVENESS , *EMPLOYMENT reentry , *MENTAL depression - Abstract
Objectives: To investigate whether intensified cooperation between general practitioner (GP), care manager and rehabilitation coordinator (RC) for patients sick-listed for stress-related mental disorder, combined with a person-centred dialogue meeting with employer, could reduce sick-leave days compared with usual care manager contact. Design: Pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial, randomisation at primary care centre (PCC) level. Setting: PCCs in Region Västra Götaland, Sweden, with care manager organisation. Participants: Of 30 invited PCCs, 28 (93%) accepted the invitation and recruited 258 patients newly sick-listed due to stress-related mental disorder (n = 142 intervention, n = 116 control PCCs). Intervention: Cooperation between GP, care manager and rehabilitation coordinator from start of illness notification plus a person-centred dialogue meeting between patient and employer within 3 months. Regular contact with care manager was continued at the control PCCs. Main outcome measures: 12-months net and gross number of sick-leave days. Secondary outcomes: Symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety; work ability and health related quality of life (EQ-5D) over 12 months. Results: There were no significant differences between intervention and control groups after 12 months: days on sick-leave (12-months net sick-leave days, intervention, mean = 110.7 days (95% confidence interval (CI) 82.6 − 138.8); control, mean = 99.1 days (95% CI 73.9 − 124.3)), stress, depression, or anxiety symptoms, work ability or EQ-5D. There were no significant differences between intervention and control groups concerning proportion on sick-leave after 3, 6, 12 months. At 3 months 64.8% were on sick-leave in intervention group vs 54.3% in control group; 6 months 38% vs 32.8%, and12 months 16.9% vs 15.5%. Conclusion: Increased cooperation at the PCC between GP, care manager and RC for stress-related mental disorder coupled with an early workplace contact in the form of a person-centred dialogue meeting does not reduce days of sick-leave or speed up rehabilitation. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03250026 CO-WORK-CARE First Posted: August 15, 2017. Recruitment of PCCs: September 2017. Inclusion of patients from December 2017 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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