Cross-Disciplinary Workplace Intervention Strategy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders - Tabular View

Tracking Information

First Received Date ^ICMJE

August 25, 2006

Last Updated Date

November 20, 2008

Start Date ^ICMJE

March 2006

Primary Completion Date

Current Primary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Sick-day saving, work capacity, economic variables [ Time Frame: one year ]

Original Primary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Sick-day saving
Return to work status in terms of “at work” or “off work”
Return to work status in terms “full duty” or “reduced duty”
Work capacity

Change History

Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00369135 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site

Current Secondary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Functional performance, pain, general health, variables related to coping, believes, anxiety, depression [ Time Frame: one year ]

Original Secondary Outcome Measures ^ICMJE

Variables related to the level of activity and participation
Functional status according to body region
Functional status related to general health
Global lifting capacity
Self estimation of work ability
Variables related to the level of body function and structures
Pain intensity
Pain history
General health
Functional performance
Variables related to coping, believes and pain behaviour
Variables related to anxiety and depression
Variables related to subjective workload, work – organisation and objective work-load
Economic variables
Variables to access the economic benefits of the treatment

Descriptive Information

Brief Title ^ICMJE

Cross-Disciplinary Workplace Intervention Strategy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders

Official Title ^ICMJE

Cross-Disciplinary Workplace Intervention Strategy for Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders

Brief Summary

Sickness absenteeism caused by MSDs is a persistent and expensive health challenge in all industrial countries including Switzerland. Despite much progress as to the cause and prevention of MSDs, they continue to be some of the most prevalent and challenging health problems with respect to the work-place and to socio-economic burden.

To improve the situation, several recent reviews recommended interventions based on the bio-psycho-social model. Work-hardening and industrial rehabilitation programs focused more on the in balance between physical and mental demands of work on one side and capacities of the individual on the other side. Therefore we propose to merge the two models into one. The result is an interdisciplinary intervention strategy witch includes work hardening, medical trainings, a cognitive behavioural approach and work place intervention.

Detailed Description

Study Phase

Study Type ^ICMJE

Interventional

Study Design ^ICMJE

Treatment, Randomized, Single Blind (Investigator), Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Condition ^ICMJE

Back Pain
Neck Pain
Musculoskeletal Abnormalities

Intervention ^ICMJE

Procedure: combined intervention

Study Arms / Comparison Groups

Publications *

* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID) in Medline.

Recruitment Information

Recruitment Status ^ICMJE

Recruiting

Estimated Enrollment ^ICMJE

120

Estimated Completion Date

February 2009

Primary Completion Date

Eligibility Criteria ^ICMJE

Inclusion Criteria:

Employees on sick leave because of non-specific back and/or neck/shoulder pain
actual unable to work and continuous or cumulative (totalized) work incapa- city in the past 6 monts
≥ 20 working days 100% absence from work or
≥ 40 working days 80 to 99% absence from work or
≥ 60 working days 50 to 79% absence from work and
not older than 58 level of employment ≥ 50%
no longer than 6 monts absencer from work (100% unable to work)

Exclusion Criteria:

Specific diagnosis such as infection, neoplasm, metastasis osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fracture and inflammatory process or other conditions for which valid diagnoses had been demonstrated either in the anamnesis, records or the clinical examination
Postoperative health condition with prohibited physical load
Major co-morbidity which may determine return to work in a clearly stronger way then the MSD itself such as a major depression, psychosis, heavy drug or alcohol disease or instable cardiac or pulmonary disease
Predominant specific shoulder pathology in "neck-shoulder pain"

Gender

Both

Ages

18 Years to 58 Years

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Contacts ^ICMJE

Contact: Danuser Brigitta, Prof.	+41 021-314-7421 ext 0041	Brigitta.Danuser@hospvd.ch
Contact: Canjuga Mirjana, lic. phil.	+41 044 - 632 - 4631 ext 0041	mcanjuga@ethz.ch

Location Countries ^ICMJE

Switzerland

Administrative Information

NCT ID ^ICMJE

NCT00369135

Responsible Party

Study ID Numbers ^ICMJE

NFP-111-111

Study Sponsor ^ICMJE

Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail

Collaborators ^ICMJE

Investigators ^ICMJE

Study Director:

Danuser Brigitta, Prof

Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail

Information Provided By

Institut Universitaire Romand de Sante au Travail

Verification Date

November 2008

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