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Vocational rehabilitation at a crossroads? - A mixed-method and cross-provider analysis of structural change in vocational rehabilitation

Vocational rehabilitation at a crossroads? - A mixed-method and cross-provider analysis of structural change in vocational rehabilitation - RehabPaths

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00033462
Enrollment
3400000
Registered
2025-08-14
Start date
2025-10-28
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-03-02

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Application for vocational rehabilitation due to impaired or at-risk work ability

Interventions

Group 1: We are conducting our study as a retrospective cohort study. Both prognostic variables and the outcome (applying for vocational rehabilitation) are in the past and are validly mapped in the r

Sponsors

Universität zu Lübeck, Institut für Sozialmedizin und Epidemiologie
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
30 Years to 62 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: We include individuals born between 1958 and 1990 who were actively insured in the 2020 reporting year. These individuals were between the ages of 30 and 62 in 2020.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria are vocational rehabilitation applications that have been submitted but not yet decided.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Application for vocational rehabilitation (VR) in 2021, 2022 or 2023 that was subsequently approved. The binary variable created for this purpose indicates whether VR was applied for and approved in the observation period.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
None planned

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactMatthias Bethge

Universität zu Lübeck, Institut für Sozialmedizin und Epidemiologie

matthias.bethge@uksh.de+49 451 50051280

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 14, 2026