Return to Work After a Workplace-oriented Intervention for Patients on Sick Leave Due to Burnout (ADA model)

Region Skane

Status: Completed

Conditions: Professional Burnout

Treatments: Other: Care as usual; Behavioral: Workplace dialogue

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01039168

FAS 2003-0765

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to evaluate the effect on return to work of a workplace intervention with patients being treated for burnout. The intervention intends to reduce job-person mismatch through patient-supervisor communication.The hypothesis is that the intervention group will show a more favourable outcome than a control group with respect to return to work.

Full description

Participants are consecutively recruited in co-operation with regional social insurance offices (RSIOs) in the two southern counties of Sweden. Persons accepting participation are clinically examined and interviewed of the course of events leading up to the burnout and the patient's expectations of changes necessary to facilitate return to work are recorded. The patient´s supervisor is then interviewed at the workplace, responding to the same questions on perceived main causes of the subordinate's sick leave and changes necessary to facilitate return to work. Finally, the core intervention takes place, namely a dialogue being initiated between the patient and the supervisor to find solutions to facilitate return to work. Out of those who do not want to participate, without giving any specific reason for that, a control group is matched by length and degree of sick leave at the time of the intervention.

Enrollment: 76 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 63 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• employment
• sick leave at lest half time 2-6 months due to work related burnout
• previously healthy

Exclusion criteria

• other somatic or psychiatric disease explaining the symptoms

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

Workplace dialogue

Active Comparator group

Description:

Clinical examination and dialogue with supervisor to find solutions to reduce job-person mismatch and facilitate return to work

Treatment:

Behavioral: Workplace dialogue

Care as usual

Sham Comparator group

Description:

No intervention besides of the care as usual being available for the patient

Treatment:

Other: Care as usual