NCT01852851

Employment and Arthritis: Making it Work

Employment and Arthritis: Making it Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating an On-line Program to Help People With Inflammatory Arthritis Remain Employed

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 528 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of British Columbia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 59 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators plan to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and the cost effectiveness of an on-line eLearning program (entitled Employment and Arthritis: Making it Work) designed to help people with inflammatory arthritis stay employed. The program also includes assessments with 1) an occupational therapist, and 2) a vocational rehabilitation counsellor at the end of the program to help participants identify and obtain necessary changes at work. People from three provinces will be recruited from collaborators' patient and program recipient lists. The study group will receive the program intervention and the control group will receive "usual care" and printed educational material. All participants will be followed for five years. The effectiveness of the program at improving at work productivity and reducing work cessation will be evaluated compared to a control group receiving printed material on employment and arthritis.

Conditions

• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
• Psoriatic Arthritis
• Other Connective Tissue Diseases
• Spondylarthropathy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Employment and Arthritis: Making it Work	A ten week on-line eLearning program designed to help people with inflammatory arthritis stay employed. The program consists of 1) 5 interactive web-based eLearning modules that participants will complete individually in between the weekly group sessions, 2) 5 weekly group sessions conducted as virtual real-time web-based group meetings led by a trained facilitator, 3) asynchronous communications such as a message board to facilitate additional interactions among participants, 4) consultations with an occupational therapist (in-person)for an ergonomic assessment, and a vocational rehabilitation counsellor (on-line consultation using web technology) for job retention vocational counselling.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-10-01
• Completion: 2023-06-01
• First posted: 2013-05-14
• Last updated: 2022-06-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada