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Expert@Work - Effectiveness of a Digital Expert Team on Return to Work
Sponsor: St. Olavs Hospital
Summary
Long-term sick leave is a challenge in Norway, and the healthcare and labor- and welfare services are often not coordinated in helping the sick-listed employees return to work. In this study, the investigators want to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention where an expert team provides advice for an individualized patient pathway based on information from a digital questionnaire and a video meeting with the sick-listed employee and the participant's general practitioner. The patient pathway should include both healthcare and labor- and welfare services measures. Sick-listed patients with musculoskeletal- and/or common mental disorders are invited to join the study. They will receive a digital questionnaire and be randomized to either treatment as usual or personalized advice from an expert team. The team will be put together based on the response from the individual's questionnaire. The investigators will evaluate the effect on return to work and the use of health care services 12 months after the intervention.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 60 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
170
Start Date
2022-10-13
Completion Date
2026-12-31
Last Updated
2025-05-16
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Digital expert team
A digital team will be appointed based on the participant's answers in the digital screening questionnaire. Members of the team can be specialists in Physical and rehabilitation medicine, psychologist, physiotherapist, social workers, and consultants in the labor- and welfare administration. The general practitioner will also be invited to the meeting.
Locations (4)
Ålesund sjukehus
Ålesund, Midt-Norge, Norway
Sykehuset Levanger
Levanger, Midt-Norge, Norway
Molde Sjukehus
Molde, Midt-Norge, Norway
St. Olavs hospital HF
Trondheim, Midt-Norge, Norway