Joint Coordination to Facilitate the Transition From Sick Leave to Employment (GESAM)

Uppsala University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Absent-mindedness; Long Term Sick Leave

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational interviewing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03348410

GESAM2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

GESAM is a randomized controlled intervention study that addressed women and men on long-term sick leave in Uppsala County. Participants which are on sick leave due to mental illness and/or pain and were expected to reach the time limit within the in health insurance will be offered to participate in an intervention.

Those how give informed consent will be randomly assigned one of the following groups: 1) informing and motivating intervention with insurance officer 2) control group. The main purpose of the study is to facilitate the return to work (preventing a return to the public health insurance) during the project period.

Enrollment: 193 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• On sick leave
• Risk of losing sick leave compensation

Exclusion criteria

• Major mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder type I, severe social dysfunction/personality disorder)
• Cancer disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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193 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Motivational interviewing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational interviewing

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group