chronic health problems
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Included are individuals who pay their pension contributions to the German Pension Insurance North, have a high risk of a disability pension (risk score of at least 60 points), meet the insurance law requirements for medical rehabilitation (cumulative insurance contributions for at least five years and cumulative insurance contributions for at least two years within the last five years), and live in Western Pomerania Rügen, Western Pomerania Greifswald, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Steinburg District.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Excluded are individuals who have used rehabilitation services in the past three years, who require medical care due to acute illnesses or who initially need support due to an addiction.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcome is work participation at the end of the intervention (employed and able to work). This variable is recorded at the beginning and end of the case management intervention. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Various secondary outcomes are collected to reflect changes in health and participation: anxiety (0 to 4 points, Rabung et al. 2009), depression (0 to 4 points, Rabung et al. 2009), interactional difficulties (0 to 4 points, Rabung et al. 2009), interference with future employment (0 to 3 points, Mittag and Raspe 2003), participation (0 to 80 points, Deck and Bürger 2005 [modified]), quality of life (0 to 1 points, Herdman et al. 2010), perceived stress (total: 10 to 50 points, helplessness: 6 to 30 points, self-efficacy: 4 to 20 points, Schneider et al. 2020), social support (6 to 30 points, Lin et al. 2019), satisfaction in various areas of life (0 to 10, Kantar Public 2019), self-rated work ability (0 to 10, Ilmarinen 2007) and the duration of sickness absence in the past six months (0 to 26 weeks, own development). These data are collected at the beginning and end of the case management intervention. Four additional items are used to determine how well the participants are informed about services that support participation (total: 0 to 20 points, individual items: 0 to 5 points). These data are recorded at the beginning and end of the case management intervention. Three items at the end of the case management intervention assess how individualized the case management intervention has been implemented (0 to 9 points, own development). At the end of the case management interventions, participants can also evaluate how satisfied they were with the case management intervention (8 to 40 points, Schmidt et al. 1989 [modified]). In addition, the case managers use checklists to document the accuracy of the implementation of the initial telephone contact, the initial discussion and the case management intervention. These data are aggregated to three index scores (0 to 100 points, own development). | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Universität zu LübeckInstitut für Sozialmedizin und Epidemiologie