A multidisciplinary intervention to facilitate return to work in cancer patients: intervention protocol and design of a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT: Returning to work can be problematic for cancer survivors due to suboptimal workplace support, a heavy workload, decreased physical functioning and fatigue. The timely and permanent return to work (RtW) of cancer patients favourably influences quality of life and economic independence. Multidisciplinary interventions aimed at timely and enduring RtW are lacking. The objectives of this article are (1) to describe the protocol of an intervention aimed at RtW of cancer patients, comprising of counselling by an oncological occupational physician and supervised physical exercise in a clinical setting during treatment and (2) to present the design of the study aimed at evaluating the feasibility of this intervention. The intervention comprises three counselling sessions with an oncological occup

SUBMITTER: Groeneveld IF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3400074 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature