In this RCT we compare the performances of two groups of insurance physicians on their assessments of work disability of claimants with a depression. The intervention group will receive a specific training in using the Protocol Depression (Intensive Care), while the other group only has received the usual care (UC).The claimants in this study are NOT REAL PATIENTS. The patients are represented by actors who play realistic cases of depression. These cases of depression are recorded on DVD and w
Conditions
Interventions
Specific training for insurance physicians applying the Protocol Depression in practise. The training takes one day in which the insurance physicians learn to use different tools for applying the Prot
Sponsors
Dutch Research Center for Insurance Medicine AMC-UWV-VUmc, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
VU University Medical Center, EMGO Institute
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Practising insurance physicians, or practising insurance physicians in training; 2. Experience in assessing work disability under terms of the Dutch disability benefits acts.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Insurance physicians who are not practising under terms of the Dutch disability benefits acts.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Quality of the insurance physiacians' reports of their assessments of work disability of a claimant (actor!) with a depression; 2. Protocol adherence of the insurance physicians. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Spread in the lists of functional abilities between the two groups of insurance physicians. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactF. Zwerver
Van der Boechorststraat 7
Outcome results
None listed