Cost-effectiveness Analysis of a Sustainable Employability Intervention.

• Register: Netherlands Trial Register
• Last refreshed on: 28 April 2013
• Main ID: NTR3136
• Date of registration: 10/11/2011
• Primary sponsor: Stichting Instituut GAK (SIG)
• Public title: Cost-effectiveness Analysis of a Sustainable Employability Intervention.
• Scientific title: Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Sustainable Employability: A Dutch quasi experiment in Care for Companies/Second Care. - CASE
• Date of first enrolment: 20/11/2011
• Target sample size: 140
• Recruitment status: recruiting
• URL: http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=3136
• Study type: intervention
• Study design: Randomised: No; Masking: None; Control: Active; Group: Parallel; Type: 2 or more arms, non-randomized

Countries of recruitment

The Netherlands

Contacts

• Name: C.Y.G. Noben

• Name: C.Y.G. Noben

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Diagnosed with physical complaints;

2. Aged between 18 and 63;

3. Perform paid labor for at least 12 hours per week;

4. Ability to communicate in Dutch.
Exclusion criteria: 1. Absenteeism for 1.5 years or longer;

2. Fulltime students with a student job;

3. Fulltime informal caregivers;

4. Fulltime volunteers.

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Mental health complaints, Cost-effectiveness , Economic evaluation, Work disability, Physical complaints, Sustainable employability

Intervention(s)

The intervention starts with a multidisciplinary expertise. Hereby, spread over 1 or 2 days, depending on the needs of the patient, the physiotherapist (both surgery and training hall), occupational therapist, Cesar remedial therapist, psychologist and physician examine the patient. Everyone does this expertise based from their own qualities (with bio-psychosocial glasses). Based on the complaints, activities and environment a patient copes with, a modular design for each client is examined. The multidisciplinary team discusses an overall report in which history, research, conclusions, shared goals and treatment plans with sub-targets are formulated. (Which treatment components are necessary and useful?)
Besides the expert report, a plan for a treatment process will be offered to the client as well. Only after approval of this proposal, the treatment (intervention) will be started.

Overall, three distinct types of trajectories (interventions) can be provided:

1. ?Psychological Journey?: The nature of the complaints and the insertion of the support / treatment is a psychic. Psychological training consists roughly of a psychology module, an occupational therapy module, relaxation and a module coordination of the process. Furthermore, during the reporting process, evaluation points with the client, a three-way conversation at work (or visit), discussions within the multidisciplinary team, etc. will take place;

2. ?Physical Journey?: The nature of the complaints and the insertion of the support / treatment is a very physical. A physical process broadly consists of a module physiotherapy, a rehabilitation module, a module Posture and movement (exercise Cesar) and the coordination of the process. (See above). Sometimes the occupational therapy module is used to apply the lessons learned in everyday life and balancing of the load of interpretation;

3. ?Multidisciplinary Track?: The nature of the complaints and / or the insertion of the counse

Primary Outcome(s)

1. A difference of 20% in the average no. of hours/days lost from work due to work disability between the intervention and the control group at 6, 12, and 18 months;

2. Cost per productivity lost reduction at 6, 12, and 18 months;

3. Cost per QALY at 6, 12, and 18 months.

Secondary Outcome(s)

1. Hours lost from work due to presenteeism;

2. Quality of life;

3. General health;

4. Costs and productivity losses;

5. Medical care consumption.

Secondary ID(s)

ECP107

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Stichting Instituut GAK (SIG), Maastricht University, Care for Companies/Second Care, Nederland