Long-term sick workers experience of professional support for re-integration back to work

Work

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-48

  Landstad, Bodil ^a,b,c   Hedlund, Marianne ^c,d   Wendelborg, Christian ^d,e   Brataas, Hildfrid ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e North Trøndelag Res Inst   (Norway)

Author keywords

Back to work; Long term sickness; Mental sickness; Musculoskeletal disorders; Norway; Professional support; Rehabilitation allowance; Survey

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; REHABILITATION; SICK LEAVE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 62149105213     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2009-0814     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Y. Åhrberg, A. Bergroth, J. Ekholm, Med lust och längtan. Långtidssjukskrivna kvinnors återkomst till arbetslivet - en intervjustudie, (With pleasure and longing. Long-term sick listed women's return to working life - an interview study), in: Hinder och framgångsfaktorer i rehabiliteringsprocessen, (Hindrances and facilitating factors in the rehabilitation process), J. Ekholm, A. Bergroth, J. Selander, S.-U. Marnetoft, K. Schüldt, B. Jakobsson et al., eds, Östersund, Mid-Sweden University, Dept of Health Sciences, CSF Report series 2002: 1; pp. 1-74.
2. G. Aronsson and T. Lindh, Långtidsfriskas arbetsvillkor. En populationsstudie, (Long time healthy workers job situation. A population study), Arbete och Hälsa (Work and Health), National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, 2004:10.
3. B.G. Bentsen (ed.), ICPC. ICHPPC-2-defined IC-Process-PC. Klassifikasjoner og definisjoner for primaerhelsetjenesten. (Classifications and definitions for primary health care) Oslo: Tano Forlag, Norsk selskap for almenmedisin, 1991.
4. H. Berglind and U. Gerner, Motivation and return to work among the long-term sicklisted: An action theory perspective, Disability and Rehabilitation 24(14) (2002), 719-726.
5. I. Bäckström, Att skilja agnarna från vetet. Om arbetsrehabilitering av långvarigt sjukskrivna kvinnor och män, (To sift the wheat from the chaff. On work-oriented rehabilitation of people on long-term sick-leave), Thesis, Department of Social Work, Umeå University, 1997.
6. A.M. Carosella, J.M. Lackner and M. Feurestein, Factors associated with early discharge from multidisciplinary work rehabilitation program for chronic low back pain, Pain 57 (1994), 69-76.
7. C. Edlund, Långtidssjukskrivna och deras medaktörer - en studie om sjukskrivning och rehabilitering, (Persons on long-term sick leave and their co-actors: A study of sick-listing and rehabilitation back to work), Thesis, Department of Public Health and Clinical medicin, Umeå University, 2001.
8. K. Ekberg and S. Linton, Arbetsrelaterade muskuloskeletala sjukdomar. Tidig rehabilitering inte entydigt positiv, (Work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Early rehabilitation is not unequivocally beneficial), Läkartidningen 10 (1994), 969-972.
9. U. Gerner, De sjukskrivna i rehabiliteringsprocessen - hinder och möjligheter, (The persons on sick leave in the rehabilitation process - obstacles and possibilities), Thesis, Report in Social work, Stockholm University, Department of Social work, 2005:13.
10. M. Hedlund, Shaping justice. Defining a category of disability in Swedish social security, Thesis, Lund University, 2004.
11. M. Hedlund and B. Hvinden, Definitions of disability - using self-assessment or experts to decide about disability programs in Norway, Paper presented at Nordic Social Policy, Helsinki, Finland, Research Meeting 22-24 August 2002.
12. M. Hedlund, C. Wendelborg, H.V. Brattaas, B.J. Landstad, Gått ut på dato? Årsaker til lav arbeidsdeltagelse blant stønadsmottagere av rehabiliteringspenger, (Expired date overdue - reasons behind low work participation among receivers of rehabilitation allowance, Report to Ministrary of Labour and Social Inclusion, Steinkjer, Norway, NTF-report, 2005:3.
13. J. Hildebrandt, M. Pfingsten, P. Saur and J. Jansen, Prediction of success from multidiciplinary treatment program for chronic low back pain, Spine 22(9) (1997), 990-1001.
14. B. Hvinden, Divided Against Itself - A Study of Integration in Welfare Bureaucracy, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, 1994.
15. B. Hvinden, Velferdsstatens håndverkere, I: Välfärden - verkan och samverkan, Fakta nr 1:1998, Stockholm: Försäkringskasseförbundet, (The craftmen of welfare, In: The welfare - operating and co-operating, Facts no 1:1998).
16. B. Hvinden, Activation: A Nordic Perspective, in: Linking Welfare and Work, European Foundation, Dublin, 1999.
17. K. Jeding, G.M. Hägg, S. Marklund, Å. Nygren, T. Theorell and E. Vingård, Ett friskt arbetsliv, (A healthy working life), Arbete och hälsa, 1999:22 (Work and health), National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm.
18. A. Kjønstad and A. Syse, Velferdsrett, (Social Welfare Law), Gyldendal akademisk, Oslo, 2005.
19. A. Knutsson andT. Nilsson, Besvärsförekomst och arbetsmiljö hos ett urval yrkesgrupper i Västernorrlands och Jämtlands län, (Occurrence of problems and working environment at a selection of work groups in Västernorrland and Jämtlands counties), Departments of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Umeå and Sundsvall, 1995.
20. R. Lindqvist, Att sätta gränser: Organisationer och reformer i arbetsrehabiliteringen, (Setting limits: Organizations and reforms in vocational rehabilitation), Umeå: Boréa, 2000.
21. Lovdata. Lov om folketrygd, LOV-1997-02-28-19, 5. kap., Stønad til helsetjeneste og lignende, (Norwegian Social Insurance Act of 1997, Chap 5, Contribution to healthservice and likewise support), Oslo, 2006.
22. M. Löfgren, J. Ekholm and A. Öhman, 'A constant struggle' - successful strategies of women in work despite fibromyalgia, Disability and Rehabilitation 28(7) (2006), 447-455.
23. S.-U. Marnetoft, J. Selander, A. Bergroth and J. Ekholm, Factors associated with successful vocational rehabilitation in a Swedish rural area, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 33 (2001), 71-78.
24. Ministery of Social and Health Issues, Stortingsmelding nr. 21, Ansvar og meistring: Mot ein heilskapeleg rehabiliteringspolitikk, (Responsibility and coping: Towards an overall rehabilitation policy), Oslo, 1998-1999.
25. Norwegian Social Security Act §2-1, 2005, http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-19970228-019-004.html.
26. Norwegian Social Secuirty Act §12-9, 2005, http://www.lovdata.no/all/hl-19970228-019.html#map036.
27. G. Östlund, Promoting return to work - lay experiences of rehabilitation after sickness absence with musculoskeletal diagnoses, Thesis, Linköping University, 2002.
28. J.T. Pedersen, Rehabilitering av velferdsforvaltningen - arbeidslinja, samordningen og klienteffekt, (Rehabilitation of the welfare management - The Reemployment Policy, coordination and effects on clients), Oslo: Kommuneforlaget, 2002.
29. Rikstrygdeverket, (The National Social Insurance Board), Trygdestatistisk årbok, (Year Book of Social Insurance Statistics), Oslo, 2005.
30. J. Selander, S.-U. Marnetoft, A. Bergroth and J. Ekholm, Return to work following vocational rehabilitation for neck, back and shoulder problems: Risk factors reviewed, Disability and Rehabilitation 24(14) (2002), 704-712.
31. V. Tan, M. Cheatle, S. Machin, P. Moberg and J. Esterhai, Goal setting as a predictor of return to work in a population of chronic musculoskeletal pain patients, International Journal of Neuroscience 3-4 (1997), 161-170.
32. D.C. Voklander, A.P. Beaulne and R.A. Lessard, Factors related to outcome following a work hardening program, Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation 5(2) (1995), 71-85.
33. S. Westin, Ervervsmessig uførhet - et forhold mellom individets ressurser og arbeidslivets krav, (Work disablement - A relation between individual resources and working life demands), in: Bruusgaard, Hattland A, Syse A., eds, Et nødvendig gode - Folketrygdens plass i Velferds-Norge, (A necessary benefit - Social Insurance position in Norwegian welfare), Ad Notam Gyldendal, Oslo, 1994.