Providing Effective Early Intervention Vocational Rehabilitation at the Community Level

Allaire, Saralynn; Niu, Jingbo; Zhu, Yanyan; Brett, Belle

doi:10.1177/0034355210392242

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“…Job counseling and advocacy interventions emerged as another theme in the results. One study analyzed the impact of job counseling and advocacy in the workplace for people with chronic illness using a pretest–posttest study design (Allaire, Niu, Zhu, & Brett, 2011). The intervention was implemented by five rehabilitation counselors with master’s degrees, and included vocational counseling and guidance, job accommodations, education, and self-advocacy for the workplace.…”

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“…The intervention was implemented by five rehabilitation counselors with master’s degrees, and included vocational counseling and guidance, job accommodations, education, and self-advocacy for the workplace. Client-reported outcomes were positive and demonstrated improvements in self-advocacy (Allaire et al, 2011). This area represents an opportunity for additional program development, implementation, and research on effectiveness.…”

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Scoping Review of Self-Advocacy Education Interventions to Improve Care

Schmidt

Faieta

Tanner

2019

OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health

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Self-advocacy is a client’s ability to represent one’s interests when managing disease or disability. Self-advocacy may increase one’s ability to seek, evaluate, and use information to promote health, yet little is known about the role of occupational therapy in promoting self-advocacy. This scoping review aims to identify interventions within occupational therapists’ scope of practice to improve self-advocacy. A literature search was conducted through Academic Search Complete to identify interventions within the scope of occupational therapy that promote self-advocacy. All levels of evidence were included, and articles were reviewed for inclusion by two authors. Included articles were charted for level of evidence, objectives, participants, and results. Fourteen articles met the criteria. Interventions included interactive multimedia interventions, peer-led educational groups, writing interventions, job counseling and advocacy, and disease-specific advocacy programs. Occupational therapists are well-equipped to intervene and promote self-advocacy through workplace modification, utilizing assistive technologies, and facilitating peer-led educational groups.

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confidence: 99%

Scoping Review of Self-Advocacy Education Interventions to Improve Care

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Faieta

Tanner

2019

OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health

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“…Studies conducted in the United States (USA) have shown that timely, patient-centred work rehabilitation assists with work retention and reducing work disability in people with rheumatic conditions ( Allaire and Keysor, 2009 ; Allaire et al., 2011 ). In the United Kingdom (UK), Macedo et al.…”

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A qualitative evaluation of occupational therapy-led work rehabilitation for people with inflammatory arthritis: Patients’ views

Prior

Amanna

Bodell

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British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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IntroductionThis qualitative study, nested in a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial, explored the views of working people with inflammatory arthritis on the impact of a work rehabilitation programme received.MethodThirty-two participants, drawn from the 55 participants in the associated randomised controlled trial, were recruited from secondary care in the United Kingdom. Semi-structured telephone and face-to-face interviews were conducted at six (n = 32) and nine months follow-up (n = 31). Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed using a constant comparative approach, under the theoretical framework of critical realism.FindingsThree overarching themes emerged: (1) intervention group participants valued the work rehabilitation programme received, and highlighted the benefits of occupational therapy; (2) control group participants reported no benefits in relation to the written work advice pack, and lacked future aspirations to stay employed; (3) the majority of participants reported not reading the written work advice pack provided, which was the only work advice received by the control group.ConclusionWorking people with inflammatory arthritis highly valued the practical support received from the therapists, and emphasised the value of the therapeutic relationship in the rehabilitation process. A tailor-made work rehabilitation programme, which incorporates cognitive-behavioural strategies into patient education, may help to reduce work instability in people with inflammatory arthritis, and increase their perceived self-efficacy.

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“…Musculoskeletal conditions are a major cause of sickness absence and work loss in the UK (Black, 2008), with up to 40% of employed people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) stopping work within 5 years of diagnosis (Young et al, 2009). Therefore, provision of work rehabilitation before work cessation occurs is particularly important for individuals with RA as, more often than not, they are at employment age at the onset (Allaire et al, 2011;WHO, 2013).…”

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A qualitative evaluation of occupational therapy-led work rehabilitation for people with inflammatory arthritis: Perspectives of therapists and their line managers

Prior

Amanna

Bodell

et al. 2015

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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IntroductionOccupational therapy-led work rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis and work problems was piloted in five hospitals in the United Kingdom. This qualitative study explored the views of participating occupational therapists and their line managers about the work rehabilitation training received and conducting the intervention, with particular focus on the structured interview used, the Work Experience Survey – Rheumatic Conditions.MethodFace-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with occupational therapists (n = 9), followed by telephone interviews with their line managers (n = 2). Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed by three researchers to maximize validity.ResultsThe main themes emerging from the occupational therapists’ interviews were: varying levels of prior knowledge and experience of work rehabilitation, initial concerns about the feasibility of a lengthy work assessment in practice and increased confidence in delivering work rehabilitation as the study progressed. The line managers’ interviews generated themes around the positive impact of the work rehabilitation training the occupational therapists received, and changes in their practice.ConclusionThe Work Experience Survey – Rheumatic Conditions was considered a good choice of work assessment which can be implemented in practice. Once therapists had provided the work intervention several times, their confidence and skills increased.

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Providing Effective Early Intervention Vocational Rehabilitation at the Community Level

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Scoping Review of Self-Advocacy Education Interventions to Improve Care

Scoping Review of Self-Advocacy Education Interventions to Improve Care

A qualitative evaluation of occupational therapy-led work rehabilitation for people with inflammatory arthritis: Patients’ views

A qualitative evaluation of occupational therapy-led work rehabilitation for people with inflammatory arthritis: Perspectives of therapists and their line managers

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