Mental impairment in the workplace
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Intervention group: casemanagement-based counseling in a period of up to 12 month (additional 6 month of follow-up care)
Sponsors
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 62 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Occupation at commencement of counselling - Psychological distress and workplace issues
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Application for a disability pension or exclusive focus on disability pension - No positive prognosis for return to work/ stay at work within 12 months (timeframe of counselling) - Inability to engage in counseling (e.g. due to untreated severe mental illness such as an acute schizophrenic episode, severe addiction disorder etc.) - Participation in a retraining program that exceeds the project's designated 12-month timeframe of counselling - Individuals with exclusively somatic illnesses
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Analysis of feasibility of the intervention in practice | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| - Process description - Identification of care difficulties - Optimization of the counseling concept and development of an intervention manual Quantitative research: - Initial assessment of pre-post-changes in selected outcomes from start of intervention and after 3, 6, 9, 12, and 18 months: - Subjective work ability (Work Ability Score; WAS) - Subjective employment prognosis (Subjective Prognosis of Employment Capacity Scale; SPE scale) - Psychosocial strain/stress/burnout at the workplace (Maslach Burnout Inventory: MBI) - Job-related problems (self created measure) - Job satisfaction (Short Questionnaire for Measuring General and Specific Job Satisfaction; KAFA) - Recovery experiences (Recovery Experience Questionnaire; REQ) - Depression (Patient Health Questionnaire; PHQ-9) - Anxiety (General Anxiety Disorder; GAD-2) - Somatization (Somatic Symptoms Scale; SSS-8) - Subjective quality of life (General Anxiety Disorder; SF-12) - Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactNadine;Michael Vorsatz;Schuler
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, Abteilung Rehabilitation, Dez. 8024 - Zusammenarbeit mit LTA-Einrichtungen, Koordination und Entwicklung;Institut für Klinische Epidemiologie und Biometrie, Universität Würzburg
Outcome results
None listed