I'm going back to work: Back injured clients' perceptions and experiences of their worker roles

Work

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-170

  Soeker, Mogammad Shaheed ^a   Wegner, Lisa ^a   Pretorius, Blanche ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Barriers; Facilitators; Return to work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; JOB FINDING; JOB SATISFACTION; JOB STRESS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICAL STRESS; POLICY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEAMWORK; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK EXPERIENCE; WORK RESUMPTION; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACK INJURIES; EMPLOYMENT; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ROLE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 42149167262     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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