Narratives of Sick Leave, Return to Work and Job Mobility for People with Common Mental Disorders in Sweden

Ståhl, Christian; Stiwne, Elinor Edvardsson

doi:10.1007/s10926-013-9480-7

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“…The notions of mistrust in claimants' motivation to work hence seem unjustified; rather, disabled workers make efforts that go unrecognized by the system actors [34]. The desire to return to work is related to workers wanting to maintain their identity and to feel as contributing to society, which has been reported in other studies [e.g., 40].…”

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Fair or square? Experiences of introducing a new method for assessing general work ability in a sickness insurance context

Ståhl

Seing

Gerdle

et al. 2017

Disability and Rehabilitation

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The perceived fairness and social validity of the assessment depended on how it was carried out; organisational conditions and priorities; communication skills; and decision outcomes. Professionals have an important pedagogical task in explaining the purpose and procedure of the assessment in order for the sick-listed to perceive it as fair rather than square, i.e., too standardised and not considering individual conditions. If the assessment could be used also for rehabilitative purposes, it could possibly be perceived as more acceptable also in cases where it leads to denied benefits. Implications for rehabilitation The perceived fairness of work ability assessments is dependent on procedures for the assessment, communication with the person, and the outcome. What is considered fair differs between assessing professionals and persons being assessed. Professionals may influence the perceptions of fairness through their way of communication. Assessments need to be coupled with rehabilitation measures in order to perceived as relevant and acceptable.

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Fair or square? Experiences of introducing a new method for assessing general work ability in a sickness insurance context

Ståhl

Seing

Gerdle

et al. 2017

Disability and Rehabilitation

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“…Two multiple case studies were conducted with matched pairs (Seing, 2015a(Seing, , 2015b). • Other studies adopted a narrative case study design (Ståhl 2014), and an action research case study design (Gensby & Husted 2013). • Two studies were conducted using ethnographic fieldwork (Larsen 2015;Petersen 2016).…”

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Employer Strategies for Preventing Mental Health Related Work Disability: A Scoping Review

Gensby

Limborg

Mahood

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This study examined Nordic research on psychosocial work environment and disability management, specifically employer strategies for preventing work disability in common mental disorders (CMDs). A scoping review was performed to identify strategies across several research databases, alongside contact with content experts, hand-searching of non-indexed journals, and internet searches. Identification and selection of relevant studies, charting of data, and collating and summarizing of results was done using a six-step framework for conducting scoping reviews. Several key elements and knowledge gaps were identified in current prevention approaches and workplace initiatives across the included studies. We propose a program theory for workplace prevention of CMD-related work disability. The program theory may help specify employer strategies, and bridge activities with stakeholders outside the workplace.

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“…Although our informants often contrasted themselves with people less interested in RTW, the design of the present study made it difficult to collect such stories: When a project title includes the phrase Return to work, and the information material necessarily emphasizes and values paid work, one is likely to alienate potential informants that mainly identify with care or unpaid work. Previous studies on unemployment narratives have pointed to the importance of framing the narration differently to changing audiences (Ezzy 2000), and studies on RTW-narratives have identified both restitutive narratives with a pro-active stance towards work life inclusion and contingent narratives where several changes in life takes place and the importance of work is lessened (Ståhl and Stiwne 2014). Hence, it is also possible that the site of recruitment, a hospital program designed to accelerate RTW, pushed participants to portray themselves as more motivated or 'constructive' than they really were.…”

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The urge to work: normative ordering in the narratives of people on long-term sick leave

Hanisch

Solvang

2019

Health Sociology Review

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This study analyzes the narratives of people on long-term sick leave due to low back pain. We draw upon the theory of justification-as developed by the French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot-to investigate how the informants' narratives evoke and rely upon three 'orders of worth'. These are the industrial order concerning being a productive citizen, the domestic order of home and family, and the civic order positioning the citizen in the regulations of the welfare state. In-depth interview interpretations map a strongly normative urge to work, a troubled home life when not working, ways of keeping in touch with work when absent and complex negotiations of the possibility of non-work. The different orders of worth do more than point towards their 'own' arena: Norms and values of the domestic order, in particular, point toward the need for return to work rather than towards life at home (nonwork). The interviews also demonstrate that the urge to work is not a strictly personal phenomenon, but tightly interwoven with problems and enjoyments in specific social arenas and interactions. We conclude that the narratives deal more with the trouble of sick leave than with the enjoyment of work. Hence, the urge to work is just as much a turn away from nonwork. Finally, we point out that return to work research should engage more broadly with research on unemployment, to avoid a work-emphasizing bias.

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Narratives of Sick Leave, Return to Work and Job Mobility for People with Common Mental Disorders in Sweden

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

Fair or square? Experiences of introducing a new method for assessing general work ability in a sickness insurance context

Fair or square? Experiences of introducing a new method for assessing general work ability in a sickness insurance context

Employer Strategies for Preventing Mental Health Related Work Disability: A Scoping Review

The urge to work: normative ordering in the narratives of people on long-term sick leave

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