Contact to a Physician Specialized in Social Medicine and Return to Work

Musculoskeletal Disease Clinical Trial

Official title:

Contact to a Physician Specialized in Social Medicine and the Impact on Return to Workforce in Patients Suspected of Disc Herniation? - a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03010384
• Other study ID #: Reuma-2011
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 6, 2016
• Last updated: January 3, 2017
• Start date: January 2011
• Est. completion date: July 2014

Study information

• Verified date: January 2017
• Source: Aalborg Universitetshospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Denmark: Danish Dataprotection Agency
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of a rehabilitation program including a physician specialized in social medicine parallel to treatment for suspected spinal disc herniation.

Description:

In a two-year time period (2011 to 2012) 443 patients of suspected of disc herniation and risk of low work ability - based on questionnaires participated in a randomized control trial. The patients were randomized to either the intervention group (n=220) or control group (n=223). The intervention group were invited to the Department of Social Medicine two to four weeks after their first contact to Department of Rheumatology for a consultation with a physician specialized in social medicine. Together with the patient a return-to-work (RTW) schedule was made to ascertain the need for contact to the workplace (to adjust work functions), municipality, general practitioner or short-term supportive consultations with a psychologist. Throughout the intervention, the patients received their usual treatment from the Department of Rheumatology like patients from the control group. Outcome was return to the work force at one year follow up using information from a national registry.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 443
• Est. completion date: July 2014
• Est. primary completion date: December 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 59 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• age = 18 and < 60 years old,

• not receiving disability pension and not on maternity leave.

• sick leave over the past year for more than ten days

• low self-rated work ability for the next two years

• health anxiety

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Musculoskeletal Disease
• Musculoskeletal Diseases
• Return to Work

Intervention

Other:
• Rehabilitation program

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kirsten Fonager

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Return to Work (register based information)		one year	No