The association between attitude, perceived norm, and perceived behavioral control with the provision of Clinical Work-Integrating Care: A reasoned action approach.

Background: Clinical Work-Integrating Care (CWIC) brings important attention to issues emerging from the interrelationship between health and work. Yet, for various reasons, CWIC is not routinely delivered in clinical healthcare. This study focuses on why medical specialists do or do not provide CWIC, applying a reasoned action approach.

Prognostic factors for return to work in breast cancer survivors.

Background: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women around the world. Large numbers of people diagnosed with breast cancer are working at the time of diagnosis. Accumulating evidence suggests that breast cancer survivors participate less often in paid work compared to others.

The extent to which medical specialists provide Clinical Work-Integrating Care (CWIC) and their perceived role-responsibility: a mixed-methods study.

Background: Awareness among medical specialists about patient work concerns is important because work and health are linked. In Clinical Work-Integrating Care (CWIC), specialists adopt the notion that work can affect health, and medical actions can affect work participation, and they act according to that notion. This study aims to assess the extent to which specialists provide CWIC and to obtain perceptions of medical specialists about their professional role-responsibility in providing CWIC.

Assisting Employers of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to Support Employees on Long-Term Sick-Leave: Development of a Web-Based SME Tool Using Intervention Mapping.

Purpose: Employers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face challenges in supporting employees on long-term sick-leave, due to limited resources and expertise available. This study aimed to develop an intervention assisting employers of SMEs in supporting long-term sick-listed employees during sick-leave and return to work (RTW).

Methods: Intervention mapping (IM) steps 1-4 were employed to develop the intervention.

Effectiveness of clinical healthcare interventions for enhancing the work participation of patients with various health conditions: a synthesis of systematic reviews.

Objectives: This objectives of this study were to determine the effectiveness of clinical healthcare interventions designed for improving the work participation of patients with various health conditions and identify promising elements within these interventions.

Design: A systematic literature search was conducted, and a synthesis of systematic reviews (SRs) was performed.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library and CINAHL were searched for articles published from January 2012 to December 2023.

Recovery Patterns: Longitudinal Cluster Analysis of Physical Function Following Abdominal Surgery.

Background: A rise in the proportion of day surgery has seen a concomitant increase in the proportion of patients recovering at home. Blended eHealth is well situated to provide this group with medical support and supervision. However, a data-driven description of the heterogeneity is missing.

Correction: A Patient-Oriented Implementation Strategy for a Perioperative mHealth Intervention: Feasibility Cohort Study.

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A Patient-Oriented Implementation Strategy for a Perioperative mHealth Intervention: Feasibility Cohort Study.

Background: Day surgery is being increasingly implemented across Europe, driven in part by capacity problems. Patients recovering at home could benefit from tools tailored to their new care setting to effectively manage their convalescence. The mHealth application ikHerstel is one such tool, but although it administers its functions in the home, its implementation hinges on health care professionals within the hospital.

Effectiveness of a team-level participatory approach aimed at improving sustainable employability among long-term care workers: a randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate one-year effects of a team-level participatory workplace intervention on need for recovery and satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness among long-term care workers by means of a randomized controlled trial.

Methods: Teams of long-term care workers were randomly assigned to the intervention group (ten teams; N=78) or the wait-list control group (ten teams; N=58). The intervention consisted of a problem inventory, related to the needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness, a brainstorm towards solutions and an action plan divided over three meetings guided by a facilitator.

The SME tool supporting employers of small- and medium-sized enterprises during the return to work of employees on long-term sick leave: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial and for a process evaluation.

Background: Returning to work after long-term sick leave can be challenging, particularly in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) where support may be limited. Recognizing the responsibilities and challenges of SME employers, a web-based intervention (hereafter the SME tool) has been developed. The SME tool aims to enhance the employer's intention and ability to support the sick-listed employee.

Incidence Rates and Predictors of Recurrent Long-Term Mental Sickness Absence Due to Common Mental Disorders.

Purpose: Several predictors have been identified for mental sickness absence, but those for recurrences are not well-understood. This study assesses recurrence rates for long-term mental sickness absence (LTMSA) within subgroups of common mental disorders (CMDs) and identifies predictors of recurrent LTMSA.

Methods: This historical prospective cohort study used routinely collected data from 16,310 employees obtained from a nationally operating Dutch occupational health service (ArboNed).

Sustainable employability of long-term care staff in self-managing teams: A qualitative study.

Aim: To discover what long-term care (LTC) staff working in self-managing teams consider necessary to remain sustainably employable.

Design: Qualitative study with semi-structured interviews.

Methods: In 2020, semi-structured interviews were conducted one-on-one with 25 LTC workers from a medium-large Dutch organization providing long-term care.

Socioeconomic differences in working life expectancy: a scoping review.

Background: In the last decade, interest in working life expectancy (WLE) and socioeconomic differences in WLE has grown considerably. However, a comprehensive overview of the socioeconomic differences in WLE is lacking. The aim of this review is to systematically map the research literature to improve the insight on differences in WLE and healthy WLE (HWLE) by education, occupational class and income while using different ways of measuring and estimating WLE and to define future research needs.

[The implementation of non-effective care - how and why].

Increasing pressure on the healthcare system makes it essential that we use limited resources efficiently. In addition to implementation of (cost-)effective care, de-implementation, the abolishment of ineffective care, is important. In two recent Dutch examples, on de-implementation of back pain care and tonsillectomies/adenotomies, it appears that can take up to decades.

Clinical Work-Integrating Care in Current Practice: A Scoping Review.

Purpose: Clinical work-integrating care (CWIC) refers to paying attention to work participation in a clinical setting. Working patients may benefit from CWIC. The purpose of this study is to explore the extent and nature to which medical specialists provide CWIC and what policies and guidelines oblige or recommend specialists to do.

Patients' Experiences, Needs, and Expectations of Cooperation Between Medical Specialists and Occupational Health Physicians: A Qualitative Study.

Objective: Cooperation between clinical and occupational health care practitioners is a key aspect of clinical work-integrating care. This study aimed to gain insight into patients' experiences, needs, and expectations regarding cooperation between medical specialists and occupational health physicians.

Methods: A thematic qualitative study was conducted involving a total of 33 participants in eight online focus groups.

Return-to-work rates and predictors of absence duration after COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate employee return-to-work (RTW) rates and examine predictors of absence duration after COVID-19. RTW rates were referenced against RTW rates after absence due to flu-like symptoms and assessed over the course of the pandemic.

Methods: Routinely collected data from a nationally operating Dutch occupational health service was used.

Development of the core of an ICF-based instrument for the assessment of work capacity and guidance in return to work of employees on sick leave: a multidisciplinary modified Delphi study.

Background: Several occupational health disciplines are involved in return to work guidance, implying that good interdisciplinary collaboration is important. A shared conceptual framework and a common language for the assessment of work capacity and guidance in return to work is expected to be at the benefit of appropriate and sustainable employability of sick employees. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) can be considered a shared conceptual framework and is also promising in terms of a common language.

Current practices, needs, and expectations of discussing work with a medical specialist from a patient's perspective: a qualitative study.

Purpose: Attention to paid work in clinical health care-clinical work-integrating care (CWIC)-might be beneficial for patients of working age. However, the perceptions and expectations of patients about CWIC are unknown. The aim of this study was to develop an understanding of current practices, needs, and expectations among patients for discussing work with a medical specialist.

A conceptual framework addressing the complex labour market dynamics of the work-to-retirement process.

The way in which retirement is conceptualized and measured is likely to influence the research findings. The previous literature has addressed a wide range of elements related to the complex work-to-retirement process, such as early, late and partial retirement, statutory retirement, work disability and unemployment paths to retirement, or different types of bridge employment. However, conceptual clarity in terms of connections between the different elements is called for.

Cancer survivors and adverse work outcomes: associated factors and supportive interventions.

Introduction: The number of cancer survivors in a working age is rising. An awareness of factors associated with adverse work outcomes, and of supportive interventions, is needed.

Sources Of Data: A narrative review of research obtained via several databases, including Medline and PsycINFO, was conducted.

The slow de-implementation of non-evidence-based treatments in low back pain hospital care-Trends in treatments using Dutch hospital register data from 1991 to 2018.

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of disability worldwide and has an excessive societal burden. Accumulating evidence has shown that some medical approaches such as imaging in absence of clear indications, medication and some invasive treatments may contribute to the problem rather than alleviating it.

Objectives: To determine the extent of de-implementation of non-evidence-based hospital treatments for LBP care in the Netherlands in the last three decades.

Effectiveness of Team and Organisational Level Workplace Interventions Aimed at Improving Sustainable Employability of Aged Care Staff: A Systematic Review.

Purpose The sustainable employability of healthcare professionals in aged care is under pressure, but research into the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving employees' sustainable employability is scarce. This review therefore aimed to investigate the effectiveness of workplace interventions on sustainable employability of healthcare professionals in aged care. Methods A systematic literature search was performed.

Employment trends at older ages: policy impact or secular change?

Unlabelled: Observed increases in retirement age are generally attributed to policies to extend working lives (PEW). In a quasi-experimental design, we examine to what extent increases in employment of older workers can be attributed to secular changes in individual characteristics as opposed to PEW. We compare two countries: one with clear PEW (the Netherlands) and one without PEW (Norway).

Implementing Nonoperative Treatment Strategy for Simple Pediatric Appendicitis: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: A nonoperative treatment strategy (NOT) with antibiotics for children with simple appendicitis could reduce anesthesia and surgery-related complications. As the implementation of a new treatment in routine clinical practice may take years, this study aims to identify barriers and facilitators for implementation of NOT for children with simple appendicitis.

Materials And Methods: To identify barriers and facilitators for its implementation, we conducted 14 semistructured interviews and a focus group with health insurance/hospital policymakers, surgical clinicians, and young people-together with their parents-who have been treated surgically or with antibiotics.