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

ABSTRACT:

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.

Methods

This cross-sectional mixed-methods study involved quantitative questionnaires and qualitative interviews with medical specialists. The self-developed 18-item questionnaire evaluated the extent and type of CWIC provision (rating scale 0-4; Never = 0 to Always = 4) and how role-re

SUBMITTER: Kluit L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11948937 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature