Testing the efficacy of WORK-ON: vocational rehabilitation for people with chronic inflammatory arthritis in Denmark-protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Among people with chronic inflammatory arthritis (IA), up to 40% lose their job in the first few years after diagnosis of this condition and are hence at high risk of being permanently excluded from the labour market. Therefore, we developed a new context-specific vocational rehabilitation (VR) for people with IA. This 6 month VR (WORK-ON) includes the following: (1) an initial assessment and goal setting by a coordinating occupational therapist, who supports cooperation and coordination between relevant partners and navigation across primary and secondary care, (2) four group sessions with peers and (3) individual sessions with a social worker, nurse or physiotherapist. The objective of this trial is to test the overall efficacy of WORK-ON as an add-on to usual care a

SUBMITTER: Madsen CMT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11603738 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature