Well-being After Finalization of a Workers' Compensation Claim: A Cross-Sectional Survey.

Improved understanding of the well-being of injured workers following claim finalization is an important component of improving outcomes for injured workers and their broader communities. Objective: Injured workers can be disadvantaged after a workers' compensation claims ends. This study investigated the association of a range of variables with well-being in injured workers who had finalized a workers' compensation claim >3 months prior. Methods: On-line, cross-sectional survey (n = 129, 55.81% female). Well-being was measured using the Psychological Wellbeing 18-item (PWB) and the Personal Wellbeing Score (PWS). Results: Multivariable quantile regression analysis controlling for education level demonstrated associations between the PWB and levels of psychological distress (−1.53; 95% CI, −2.11 to −0.94; P < 0.001) and resilience (6.51; 95% CI, 2.65 to 10.37; P = 0.001), and between the PWS and levels of psychological distress (−0.04; 95% CI, −0.51 to −0.29; P < 0.001) and resilience (1.2; 95% CI 0.47 to 1.93), P = 0.001. Conclusions: Contemporaneous variables of resilience and psychological distress were stronger correlates with well-being than historic claim-related variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]