SMART Supervisor Training Program to Prevent Work Disability

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
• Main ID: NCT02309996
• Date of registration: 02/12/2014
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Lakehead University
• Public title: SMART Supervisor Training Program to Prevent Work Disability
• Scientific title: A Supervisor Training Program for Work Disability Prevention: A Cluster RCT
• Date of first enrolment: December 2014
• Target sample size: 350
• Recruitment status: Recruiting
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02309996
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Canada

Contacts

• Name: Vicki L Kristman, PhD

• Name: Vicki L Kristman, PhD
• Affiliation: Lakehead University

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Supervisors

- Currently employed at the work units selected by participating employers

- Supervise at least one working employee (i.e., non-supervisor)

- Would deal with issues of work accommodation should the need arise

Exclusion Criteria:

- Higher level supervisors who only supervise lower-level supervisors

- Do not speak/read English



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Work Disability Reduction and Prevention

Improving Return-to-Work Outcomes

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Supervisor Training Program

Primary Outcome(s)

Total duration of workers' lost-time claims due to injury or illness for existing and new claims [Time Frame: 1 year period post-randomization]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Cumulative incidence of workers' lost-time injuries [Time Frame: 1 year period post-randomization]

Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) [Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months]

Supervisory Behavior Questionnaire [Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months]

Training program reach (proportion of the target group that participates) [Time Frame: Up to 1 month post-randomization]

Job Accommodation Scale (JAS) [Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months]

Supervisor Autonomy for Provision of Job Accommodations questions [Time Frame: Baseline]

Global Work Safety Climate (GWSC) Scale [Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months]

Training program dose delivered (efforts of the trainers) [Time Frame: Up to 1 month post-randomization]

Supervisor's Role in Rehabilitation Questionnaire [Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months]

Physical Workload Questionnaire (PWQ) [Time Frame: Baseline]

Supervisor and Healthcare Provider Interactions questionnaire [Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months]

Total number of workers' sick leave days [Time Frame: 1 year period post-randomization]

Training program dose received (extent to which the supervisors have followed the training) [Time Frame: Up to 1 month post-randomization]

Behaviour Measure for Supervisors to Support Return to Work (SSRW) questionnaire [Time Frame: 6 months]

Organizational Policies and Practices (OPP) Scale (13 questions about organizational disability management policies and practices) [Time Frame: Baseline]

Supervisor Support Scale from the "Readiness for RTW Study" [Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months]

Training program fidelity (extent to which the training program was delivered according to the protocol) [Time Frame: Up to 1 month post-randomization]

Secondary ID(s)

MOP-130505

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Institute for Work & Health

Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)