Cross-Disciplinary Workplace Intervention Strategy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-03-31

Study Completion Date

2009-02-28

Brief Summary

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Sickness absenteeism caused by MSDs is a persistent and expensive health challenge in all industrial countries including Switzerland. Despite much progress as to the cause and prevention of MSDs, they continue to be some of the most prevalent and challenging health problems with respect to the work-place and to socio-economic burden.

To improve the situation, several recent reviews recommended interventions based on the bio-psycho-social model. Work-hardening and industrial rehabilitation programs focused more on the in balance between physical and mental demands of work on one side and capacities of the individual on the other side. Therefore we propose to merge the two models into one. The result is an interdisciplinary intervention strategy witch includes work hardening, medical trainings, a cognitive behavioural approach and work place intervention.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Back Pain Neck Pain Musculoskeletal Abnormalities

Keywords

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work Musculoskeletal Disorders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

Interventions

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combined intervention

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Employees on sick leave because of non-specific back and/or neck/shoulder pain
* actual unable to work and continuous or cumulative (totalized) work incapa- city in the past 6 monts
* ≥ 20 working days 100% absence from work or
* ≥ 40 working days 80 to 99% absence from work or
* ≥ 60 working days 50 to 79% absence from work and
* not older than 58 level of employment ≥ 50%
* no longer than 6 monts absencer from work (100% unable to work)

Exclusion Criteria

* Specific diagnosis such as infection, neoplasm, metastasis osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fracture and inflammatory process or other conditions for which valid diagnoses had been demonstrated either in the anamnesis, records or the clinical examination
* Postoperative health condition with prohibited physical load
* Major co-morbidity which may determine return to work in a clearly stronger way then the MSD itself such as a major depression, psychosis, heavy drug or alcohol disease or instable cardiac or pulmonary disease
* Predominant specific shoulder pathology in "neck-shoulder pain"

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

58 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Principal Investigators

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Danuser Brigitta, Prof

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail

Locations

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Institut universitaire romand de Santè au Travail

Lausanne, , Switzerland

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Switzerland

Central Contacts

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Danuser Brigitta, Prof.

Role: CONTACT

Phone: +41 021-314-7421

Email: [email protected]

Canjuga Mirjana, lic. phil.