Prevalence and predictors of return to work in hospitalised trauma patients during the first year after discharge: A prospective cohort study

Return to work following unintentional injury: a prospective follow-up study

“…The relevance of psychosocial and subjective factors for a successful return to work after accidents has been increasingly recognised in the literature 7 11 20 26 27 35. The total amount of explained variance in the present study was moderate (R 2 =0.34) but within the range of comparable studies 8 9 12–14 26.…”

“…There are relatively few studies examining the role of the subjectively experienced accident severity and the subjectively experienced ability to cope with the unintentional injury regarding return to work 7–9 13 25. The findings from these studies cannot be generalised as they are compromised by their highly selective samples: the studies were either restricted to severely injured patients without pre-existing mental disorders,7 813 26 and/or they excluded foreign-language patients 7 8 12 13 19 26 27. In a previous study of severely injured accident victims, we found that time off work was best predicted by the patients’ own appraisals of accident severity and by the patients’ own expectations regarding their ability to cope with the unintentional injury and its job-related consequences 13.…”

Prognostic indicators of social outcomes in persons who sustained an injury in a road traffic crash

“…Studies investigating vocational outcomes after a vehiclerelated injury are largely conducted among patients recruited from hospitals, trauma centres or intensive care units, and many of these focus on chronic musculoskeletal pain [4][5][6][7]. A recent Australian study of patients with musculoskeletal and orthopaedic traffic injuries, including those whose injuries were not sufficiently severe to require hospitalization, showed that one in three patients with compensated time off work after a road traffic injury had a work disability beyond 6 months; and one in six had a loss in earnings capacity [6].…”

Health status after traumatic injury

“…21 Availability of emotional support, including family support 22,23 and the ability to self-care (i.e. greater independenct in physical functioning) have also been proposed as potentially modificable factors that affect recovery after traumatic injury.…”