Return to Work After a Workplace-oriented Intervention for Patients on Sick Leave Due to Burnout

NCT ID: NCT01039168

Last Updated: 2024-03-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 76 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2003-11-30
• Study Completion Date: 2009-09-30

Brief Summary

The study aims to evaluate the effect on return to work of a workplace intervention with patients being treated for burnout. The intervention intends to reduce job-person mismatch through patient-supervisor communication.The hypothesis is that the intervention group will show a more favourable outcome than a control group with respect to return to work.

Detailed Description

Participants are consecutively recruited in co-operation with regional social insurance offices (RSIOs) in the two southern counties of Sweden. Persons accepting participation are clinically examined and interviewed of the course of events leading up to the burnout and the patient's expectations of changes necessary to facilitate return to work are recorded. The patient´s supervisor is then interviewed at the workplace, responding to the same questions on perceived main causes of the subordinate's sick leave and changes necessary to facilitate return to work. Finally, the core intervention takes place, namely a dialogue being initiated between the patient and the supervisor to find solutions to facilitate return to work. Out of those who do not want to participate, without giving any specific reason for that, a control group is matched by length and degree of sick leave at the time of the intervention.

Conditions

Professional Burnout

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Workplace dialogue

Clinical examination and dialogue with supervisor to find solutions to reduce job-person mismatch and facilitate return to work

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Workplace dialogue

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Care as usual

No intervention besides of the care as usual being available for the patient

Group Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR

Care as usual

Intervention Type: OTHER

Interventions

Workplace dialogue

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Care as usual

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• employment
• sick leave at lest half time 2-6 months due to work related burnout
• previously healthy

Exclusion Criteria

• other somatic or psychiatric disease explaining the symptoms

• Maximum Eligible Age: 63 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Lund University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

County Councils of Southern Sweden

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Region Skane

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Björn Karlson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital and Lund University

Locations

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital

Lund, , Sweden

Countries

Sweden

References

Karlson B, Jonsson P, Palsson B, Abjornsson G, Malmberg B, Larsson B, Osterberg K. Return to work after a workplace-oriented intervention for patients on sick-leave for burnout--a prospective controlled study. BMC Public Health. 2010 Jun 2;10:301. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-301.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 20515510 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

FAS 2003-0765

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id