Towards a shortened sick leave duration of employees sick-listed due to common mental disorders

Conditions

Sick leave due to common mental disorders Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Margot Joosen, Karlijn M. van Beurden, David S Rebergen, Monique A. J. M. Loo, Berend Terluin et al. (8 authors)

BMC Health Services Research2019-05-0314 citations

Effectiveness of an Intervention to Enhance Occupational Physicians' Guideline Adherence on Sickness Absence Duration in Workers with Common Mental Disorders: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.

van Beurden KM, Brouwers EPM, Joosen MCW, de Boer MR, van Weeghel J, Terluin B, van der Klink JJL.

2017-12-0113 citations

10.1007/s10926-016-9682-x

Effect of an intervention to enhance guideline adherence of occupational physicians on return-to-work self-efficacy in workers sick-listed with common mental disorders.

van Beurden KM, van der Klink JJ, Brouwers EP, Joosen MC, Mathijssen JJ, Terluin B, van Weeghel J.

2015-08-1928 citations

10.1186/s12889-015-2125-3

Effectiveness of guideline-based care by occupational physicians on the return-to-work of workers with common mental disorders: design of a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

van Beurden KM, Brouwers EP, Joosen MC, Terluin B, van der Klink JJ, van Weeghel J.

2013-03-0617 citations

10.1186/1471-2458-13-193

Interventions

OPs in the experimental condition are trained in the Dutch guideline 'management of workers with common mental health problems by occupational physicians'. OPs will be divided into groups of 6 - 10 OP

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. A common mental disorder, i.e. anxiety, depression, burnout or emotional distress, is the primary reason for sick leave at the time of inclusion. Physical problems may be present, but should not cause absenteeism 2. Dutch speaking 3. Counseled by an OP that takes part in the study

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Acute crisis or suicidality 2. Sick leave duration of less than 4 weeks, as a quick recovery of part of this group may dilute the statistical power of the study 3. Sick leave duration of more than 8 weeks, as the study aims to prevent long term sick leave

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Time to full return to work, defined as the number of days between the first day of sickness absence and the first day of full return to work	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Partial return to work 2. Total days of sick leave at 12 months 3. Patient satisfaction, assessed by a short questionnaire developed for this study 4. Symptoms, measured using the 4DSQ (Terluin 2002) Outcomes will be assessed at baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months.	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed