Work resumption after vocational rehabilitation: a follow-up two years after completed rehabilitation

Ahlgren, ÅsaMittuniversitetet,Institutionen för hälsovetenskap (-2013),Karolinska Institutet, Sweden (författare)

Work resumption after vocational rehabilitation : a follow-up two years after completed rehabilitation

A short-term evaluation of vocational rehabilitation (VR) may give conclusions not automatically applicable over a longer term. The present study follows up alterations in work resumption or in social insurance benefits from the time of completed VR and during the following two years. AIM: The primary objective was to evaluate work resumption among previous sick-leavers granted vocational rehabilitation. The aim of the follow-up was to assess the stability of the outcome of VR over time and to analyse factors of importance for clients that remained at work. METHOD: A register investigation was based on 815 cases where the clients had taken part in vocational rehabilitation and were served by one of six local social insurance offices of a Swedish county. RESULTS: Of the clients studied, 52.4% had attained full working capacity The proportion had decreased to 37.4% two years later. One factor that differed between those who resumed work and those who returned to sick leave was the duration of the previous sick-leave period. Those who returned to work had had shorter sick leave, had jobs to return to and had received job training as a vocational rehabilitation measure. CONCLUSIONS: The clients with the best chances of being in work two years after completed vocational rehabilitation were those with short sickness absence, who had been selected for job training as a vocational rehabilitation, were aged 16-29 years and were employed in industry.

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP Hälsovetenskap Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi hsv//swe
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES Health Sciences Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology hsv//eng
Chronic pain
Disability pension
Outcome
Psychiatric disorders
Sickness absence
Social insurance
Vocational rehabilitation
Work resumption
Rehabiliteringsvetenskap
rehabilitering
Social medicine
Socialmedicin

Bergroth, AlfMittuniversitetet,Institutionen för hälsovetenskap (-2013),Karolinska Institutet, Sweden(Swepub:miun)alfber (författare)
Ekholm, JanKarolinska Institutet (författare)
Schüldt Ekholm, KristinaMittuniversitetet,Institutionen för hälsovetenskap (-2013),Karolinska Institutet, Sweden(Swepub:miun)krisch (författare)
MittuniversitetetInstitutionen för hälsovetenskap (-2013) (creator_code:org_t)

Av författaren/redakt...: Ahlgren, Åsa; Bergroth, Alf; Ekholm, Jan; Schüldt Ekholm, ...

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