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Sickness Absence Versus Physical, Mental, and Job-related Factors in Patients With Chronic Pulmonary Disease

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
LHL Helse
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT01118104
First received: April 27, 2010
Last updated: May 14, 2012
Last verified: May 2012
History of Changes
  Purpose

People with chronic respiratory disease have shortened work life, their disease is associated with greater work disability and they are at greater risk of being unemployed. Lower employment rates and higher sickness absence is expensive for the community and leads to financial as well as social consequences for the individual.

There is a lack of data on factors that can predict sickness absence and disability in patients with pulmonary disease. We therefore want to study a group of people with COPD and asthma referred to our clinic. The study will investigate relationships between sickness absence and exercise capacity, job-related factors, disease severity, self-efficacy, health related quality of life and subjective health complaints.


Condition Intervention
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Asthma
 Other: Vocational pulmonary rehabilitation

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Official Title: Relationships Between Sickness Absence and Physical, Mental, and Job-related Factors in Patients With Chronic Pulmonary Disease

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U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by LHL Helse:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Number of subjects absent from work more than 10 days 4 weeks prior to follow-up [ Time Frame: 12 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    The subjects are interviewed after 12 months. Number of days absent from work during 4 weeks prior to the interview are recorded.


Enrollment: 318
Study Start Date: January 2008
Study Completion Date: December 2011
Primary Completion Date: December 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Pulmonary vocational rehabilitation Other: Vocational pulmonary rehabilitation
Multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation with emphasis on vocational issues

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 65 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • chronic pulmonary disease
  • employed
  • periods of sickness absence in the year prior to admittance

Exclusion Criteria:

  • lack of ability to complete the rehabilitation program
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01118104

Locations
Norway
Glittreklinikken
Hakadal, Akershus, Norway, 1485
Sponsors and Collaborators
LHL Helse
Investigators
Study Director: Morten S Ryg, PhD LHL Helse
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: LHL Helse
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01118104     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: GK57
Study First Received: April 27, 2010
Last Updated: May 14, 2012
Health Authority: Norway:National Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Asthma
Lung Diseases
Respiration Disorders
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Bronchial Diseases
 Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Hypersensitivity
Immune System Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 19, 2013