Shared decision making from reintegration professionals' perspectives to support return to work: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Work participation is an important determinant of public health; being unemployed leads to a decrease in an individual's health. In the Netherlands, people with a work disability can apply for disability benefits, in which people also receive support to return to work (RTW). A method, currently used in the medical sector, that can include both the perspective of the reintegration professional and of the individual in the process of RTW, is shared decision making (SDM). In this article we explore to what extent reintegration professionals currently use SDM, and to what extent they prefer to use SDM in their ideal interaction with clients.

Methods

We performed semi-structured interviews with fourteen reintegration professionals from four different municipalities. Th

SUBMITTER: Vooijs M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7874602 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature