None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The proposed project addresses the major problem of chronic disability caused by occupational back pain and its escalating associated costs. This is a randomised, assessor blinded two-arm trial that tests the efficacy of the provision of evidence-based information regarding barriers to return to work and injury management recommendations to the treating doctor and insurer case managers, in reducing the number of sick days lost for workers with back pain when compared to usual care.
Interventions
The proposed project addresses the major problem of chronic disability caused by occupational back pain and its escalating associated costs. This is a randomised, assessor blinded two-arm trial that tests the efficacy of the provision of evidence-based information regarding barriers to return to work and injury management recommendations to the treating doctor and insurer case managers, in reducing the number of sick days lost for workers with back pain when compared to usual care.
QBE insuranc
The proposed project addresses the major problem of chronic disability caused by occupational back pain and its escalating associated costs. This is a randomised, assessor blinded two-arm trial that tests the efficacy of the provision of evidence-based information regarding barriers to return to work and injury management recommendations to the treating doctor and insurer case managers, in reducing the number of sick days lost for workers with back pain when compared to usual care. QBE insurance case managers recruit subjects at their usual weekly file review. Subjects are randomised into either experimental (KNP assessment) or control group (usual injury management care). The Key Needs Profile (KNP) is an assessment tool that provides injury management recommendations based on a systematic analysis of physical, psychosocial and workplace barriers to return to work for workers with chronic back pain.
Sponsors
N/A
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
The inclusion criteria are that each worker have a new claim for a back injury of minimum 12 and maximum 26 weeks from date of first symptoms reported, be over 16 years of age with workers' compensation claim forms lodged by employer and worker, and a WorkCover medical certificate relating to the back injury certifying him/her unfit for work or fit for suitable duties.
Exclusion criteria
We exclude workers who are diagnosed with specific conditions such as tumours, tuberculosis, spinal fractures, ankylosing spondylitis or infection as the cause of their back pain, or who are pregnant at the time of referral.
Outcome results
None listed