Rehabilitation of young immigrants in primary care a comparison between two treatment models

Evaluation of effective return-to-work treatment programs for sick-listed patients with non-specific musculoskeletal complaints: a systematic review

“…Some articles describe the same research project: Bendix et al (1995Bendix et al ( , 1997; Haldorsen et al (2002) and Skouen et al (2002); Lindstrom et al (1992aLindstrom et al ( , b, 1995; Corey et al (1996) and Mitchell and Carmen (1994); and Lofvander (1999) and Lofvander et al (1997). Table 3 presents information about the scores for these articles' methodological criteria.…”

“…Eight of these articles, including one systematic review (Karjalainen et al 2003a), were selected during the electronic literature search (Arnetz et al 2003;Haldorsen et al 1998Haldorsen et al , 2002Johansson et al 1998;Lofvander 1999;Marhold et al 2001;NordstromBjorverud and Moritz 1998;Skouen et al 2002). Two articles were found as a result of the reference check (Linton et al 1997;Lofvander et al 1997), and 16 articles were primary studies retrieved during systematic reviews of Guzman et al (2001), Karjalainen et al (2003b) and Schonstein et al (2003) (Alaranta et al 1994;Altmaier et al 1992;Bendix et al 1995Bendix et al , 1996Bendix et al , 1997Bentsen et al 1997;Corey et al 1996;Faas et al 1995;Kellett et al 1991;Lindstrom et al 1992aLindstrom et al , b, 1995Loisel et al 1997;Mitchell and Carmen 1994;Moffett et al 1999;Torstensen et al 1998).…”

Quality of life of participants in a mind-body-based self-development course: A descriptive study

“…People suffering from illness but lacking a diagnosis [9,10] tend to seek help and solutions to their life problems also outside main stream health care, e.g. CAM/MBM therapies.…”

Work performance and pain intensity during exercise. A before-and-after study of a cognitive-behavioural treatment in primary care of young immigrant patients

“…All patients in both randomized groups had daily exercise. 21 At the follow-up, pain anxiety, depression and self-rated inability to work had decreased, and return to work was commoner in the experimental group than among the controls. Notably, though, only about a third of the experimental group had improved.…”

“…It was centred on the individual immigrant patient who was suffering pain or other benign disorders, and his or her special needs as regarded communication and personal support, and took into account the limited resources of the health personnel in primary care. 21 The main part of this programme consisted of semi-structured interviews about the patients' concepts of pain, followed by doctor -patient dialogue sessions about the patients' pain beliefs. This experimental programme was compared with the doctors' reassurance about the benignity of the pain.…”