Rückkehr zur Arbeit – Erfahrungen und Erwartungen von Patientinnen und Patienten in der stationären onkologischen Rehabilitation

Abstract

The results indicate that after having received their diagnosis most cancer patients do not experience negative reactions from their work environment and consequently report few worries with regard to returning to work. The different views on work-related offers during rehabilitation indicate that the concepts of occupation-related therapies within cancer rehabilitation might be optimized by taking the different needs of male and female patients into account.

Reintegrating Cancer Patients Into the Workplace

“…The immediate conditions in the workplace and the support provided for the return to work are a crucial promoting factor. The cancer survivor is more likely to be permanently able to work if he or she is integrated into the social network at the workplace, the employer ensures working conditions that are beneficial to his or her health, and professional help is offered in the return to working life, than if these factors are absent or even their opposite is true (5,15,(24)(25)(26)(27).…”

Return to Work of Cancer Survivors

“…In different studies and our own investigations, it could be demonstrated that especially patients between 40 and 60 years and patients with a low school education and with moderately severe to heavy physical load in their occupation are threatened by the financial and social burden [4,5,7,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

“…If good conditions for integration in the social structure at the job and good terms of employment are created and if professional help is provided during the process of resumption of the professional activity, the likelihood of a successful RTW is much higher than if these factors are not given [5,7,[21][22][23][24].…”

Gründe für die Nichtinanspruchnahme einer onkologischen Rehabilitation. Ergebnisse einer schriftlichen Befragung von Patienten aus onkologischen Versorgungszentren

“…Berufliche Gründe spielten aufgrund der geringen Anzahl noch berufstätiger Patienten ohne Reha-Inanspruchnahme (N = 34) bei den Nennungen eine untergeordnete Rolle. Die beruflichen Grün- [26]. Gerade in diesem Zusammenhang könnte den Patienten vermittelt werden, dass die Rehabilitation hilft, den Einstieg in die Arbeit zu erleichtern.…”