Sickness Absence Versus Physical, Mental, and Job-related Factors in Patients With Chronic Pulmonary Disease

NCT ID: NCT01118104

Last Updated: 2012-05-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 318 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2008-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2011-12-31

Brief Summary

People with chronic respiratory disease have shortened work life, their disease is associated with greater work disability and they are at greater risk of being unemployed. Lower employment rates and higher sickness absence is expensive for the community and leads to financial as well as social consequences for the individual.

There is a lack of data on factors that can predict sickness absence and disability in patients with pulmonary disease. We therefore want to study a group of people with COPD and asthma referred to our clinic. The study will investigate relationships between sickness absence and exercise capacity, job-related factors, disease severity, self-efficacy, health related quality of life and subjective health complaints.

Conditions

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Asthma

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Pulmonary vocational rehabilitation

Group Type: OTHER

Vocational pulmonary rehabilitation

Intervention Type: OTHER

Multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation with emphasis on vocational issues

Interventions

Vocational pulmonary rehabilitation

Multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation with emphasis on vocational issues

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• chronic pulmonary disease
• employed
• periods of sickness absence in the year prior to admittance

Exclusion Criteria

• lack of ability to complete the rehabilitation program

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

LHL Helse

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Morten S Ryg, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

LHL Helse

Locations

Glittreklinikken

Hakadal, Akershus, Norway

Countries

Norway

Other Identifiers

GK57

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id