Elements of Return-to-Work Interventions for Workers on Long-Term Sick Leave: A Systematic Literature Review. | Semantic Scholar (2024)

Early- and multidisciplinary intervention and time-contingent-, activating interventions appear most effective to support RTW.

Evidence suggests that a low intensity approach to RTW interventions may be an appropriate first option before investment in high intensity, and arguably more expensive interventions, as the latter appear to provide limited additional benefit.

Consensus was reached among the expert panel that many factors that are important for the RTW of short-term disabled workers are also important for that of long-term partially disabled workers and that a substantial number of these factors could effectively be targeted using VR interventions.

This study demonstrates the utility of synthesising qualitative research to provide insight into the factors that contribute to experiences of supportive and effective vocational rehabilitation services that traverse various contexts.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions aimed at enhancing return to work (RTW) in sick-listed workers with mental disorders reveals strong evidence for interventions including contact to the work place and multicomponent interventions and moderate evidence for intervention including graded RTW.

Multidisciplinary assessments and individual rehabilitation interventions may improve the chance of return-to-work in women with long-term sick leave due to pain condition or mental illness.

In a highly impaired population, adjuvant OT did increase long-term depression recovery and long- term RTW in GH (ie, full RTW while being remitted, and with better work and role functioning), but could not demonstrate significant benefit for improving overall work participation.

This study of vocational rehabilitation in mainly female patients on long-term sick leave due to mental illness and/or chronic pain suggests that multidisciplinary team assessments and individually adapted rehabilitation interventions increased RTW and employability.

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