Joint Coordination to Facilitate the Transition From Sick Leave to Employment (GESAM)

Joint Coordination (GESAM) - Collaboration Project to Facilitate the Transition From Sick Leave to Employment

GESAM is a randomized controlled intervention study that addressed women and men on long-term sick leave in Uppsala County. Participants which are on sick leave due to mental illness and/or pain and were expected to reach the time limit within the in health insurance will be offered to participate in an intervention.

Those how give informed consent will be randomly assigned one of the following groups: 1) informing and motivating intervention with insurance officer 2) control group. The main purpose of the study is to facilitate the return to work (preventing a return to the public health insurance) during the project period.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Long Term Sick Leave; Absent-mindedness
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Motivational interviewing

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 193
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Sweden
  • Uppsala, Sweden, SE-75122
    • Uppsala University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 64 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• On sick leave
• Risk of losing sick leave compensation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder type I, severe social dysfunction/personality disorder)
• Cancer disease

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control; Control group
Experimental: Intervention; Motivational interviewing	Behavioral: Motivational interviewing; Motivational interviewing with insurance officer

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Return to work (RTW)	Return to work measured as time to participation in the labor force	One year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Uppsala University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Ingrid Anderzén, PHD, Uppsala University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 14, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 14, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): December 14, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 16, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 16, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): November 20, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 19, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 16, 2020
• Last Verified: October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: GESAM2017

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No