RehabBenefit - work
Rehabilitation and work participation
Project managers
PhD fellow
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Rehabilitation should help people participate in society with the best possible function, coping skills and independence. However, there is little research examining how specialized rehabilitation services affect work ability and work participation after rehabilitation, despite the great individual and socio-economic significance of this.
The main goal of the project is therefore to investigate whether people who have undergone rehabilitation have changed their work participation from 1 year before to 1 year after rehabilitation.
This project is one of three projects in RehabNytte where over 4000 people underwent rehabilitation at private rehabilitation institutions in Norway. The other two projects deal with patient involvement and quality/disease outcomes.
WHO CAN JOIN?
The study includes adult patients who have undergone rehabilitation in private rehabilitation institutions regardless of their underlying disease. Inclusion of patients has been completed and no further participants are being recruited.
WHAT DOES THE STUDY INVOLVE?
Patients referred to rehabilitation and over 4000 people were included. At inclusion, after 3, 6 and 12 months. they filled out questionnaires that included work participation in a digital portal. To examine changes in work and benefit situations, register data was obtained from NAV on diagnosis, sickness benefits, work assessment benefits, disability pension and unemployment - also for a matched control group.
This multicenter study is the first to investigate work ability and participation after rehabilitation, compared with a matched control group. The results will show whether rehabilitation is beneficial and provide a starting point for optimizing rehabilitation services for people of working age.