NCT00687427

Return to Work After Hand Injury: the Role of Medical, Demographic and Psycho-Social Factors

Return to Work After Hand Injury: The Role of Medical, Demographic and Psychosocial Factors

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 75 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Soroka University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent of return to work (RTW) after traumatic hand injury and to identify factors that are related to RTW.

Detailed description

RTW is one of the main rehabilitation outcomes after injury, the loss of the ability to work may have psychological as well as economic impact on the injured person. Time off work is also a burden to the economic system, associated with loss of work days, sick leave and national insurance payment. Hand injury can cause limitations in function, therefore influence the ability to work. Review of the literature reveals that time off work after hand injury ranges from a few days to a year and more. Factors associated with time off work include medical, socio-economic and psychosocial factors. Only a few studies have been conducted in Israel to investigate rate of RTW after hand injury and factors that affect RTW . The aim of this study is to explore the extent of RTW after traumatic hand injury and to examine the relationship between several factors - medical, demographic and psychosocial and RTW. This, in order to identify prognostic factors that can be treated during rehabilitation. There is no preliminary hypothesis made about the relationships between the factors and RTW. This study is also retrospective and prospective since it examine individuals under-going occupational therapy treatment and individuals who have been treated in the past.

Conditions

• Hand Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Questionnaires and motor/sensitivity testing	Group A: 1. Full assessment (using the various measures described) will be carried out 0-3 weeks since referral. 2. Treatment will focus on the patient's needs and in accordance with the physicians requests. 3. Three months post initial treatment re-assessment will be conducted.
BEHAVIORAL	Questionnaires and motor/sensitivity testing	Group B Researcher will contact by phone previous patients that were treated in the occupational therapy department in the past half year and a year, in order to get their permission to participate (retrospectively) in this research. After getting their consent, a questionnaire concerning their RTW will be posted to the subjects.
BEHAVIORAL	Questionnaires and motor/sensitivity testing	Group C Researcher will contact by phone previous patients that were treated in the occupational therapy department in the past half year and a year, in order to get their permission to participate (retrospectively) in this research. After getting their consent, a questionnaire concerning their RTW will be posted to the subjects.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-06-01
• Completion: 2008-12-01
• First posted: 2008-05-30
• Last updated: 2008-05-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel