Clinical Trial: Cross-Disciplinary Workplace Intervention Strategy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Cross-Disciplinary Workplace Intervention Strategy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders

Brief Summary:

Sickness absenteeism caused by MSDs is a persistent and expensive health challenge in all industrial countries including Switzerland. Despite much progress as to the cause and prevention of MSDs, they continue to be some of the most prevalent and challenging health problems with respect to the work-place and to socio-economic burden.

To improve the situation, several recent reviews recommended interventions based on the bio-psycho-social model. Work-hardening and industrial rehabilitation programs focused more on the in balance between physical and mental demands of work on one side and capacities of the individual on the other side. Therefore we propose to merge the two models into one. The result is an interdisciplinary intervention strategy witch includes work hardening, medical trainings, a cognitive behavioural approach and work place intervention.


Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail

Current Primary Outcome: Sick-day saving, work capacity, economic variables [ Time Frame: one year ]

Original Primary Outcome:

  • Sick-day saving
  • Return to work status in terms of “at work” or “off work”
  • Return to work status in terms “full duty” or “reduced duty”
  • Work capacity


Current Secondary Outcome: Functional performance, pain, general health, variables related to coping, believes, anxiety, depression [ Time Frame: one year ]

Original Secondary Outcome:

  • Variables related to the level of activity and participation
  • Functional status according to body region
  • Functional status related to general health
  • Global lifting capacity
  • Self estimation of work ability
  • Variables related to the level of body function and structures
  • Pain intensity
  • Pain history
  • General health
  • Functional performance
  • Variables related to coping, believes and pain behaviour
  • Variables related to anxiety and depression
  • Variables related to subjective workload, work – organisation and objective work-load
  • Economic variables
  • Variables to access the economic benefits of the treatment


Information By: Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail

Dates:
Date Received: August 25, 2006
Date Started: March 2006
Date Completion: February 2009
Last Updated: November 20, 2008
Last Verified: November 2008