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

Asthma Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01118104
• Other study ID #: GK57
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 27, 2010
• Last updated: May 14, 2012
• Start date: January 2008
• Est. completion date: December 2011

Study information

• Verified date: May 2012
• Source: LHL Helse
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Norway:National Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 318
• Est. completion date: December 2011
• Est. primary completion date: December 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

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

Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Lung Diseases
• Lung Diseases, Obstructive
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Intervention

Other:
• Vocational pulmonary rehabilitation
Multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation with emphasis on vocational issues

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	Glittreklinikken	Hakadal	Akershus

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
LHL Helse

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of subjects absent from work more than 10 days 4 weeks prior to follow-up	The subjects are interviewed after 12 months. Number of days absent from work during 4 weeks prior to the interview are recorded.	12 months	No