Factors influencing return to work experienced by people with acquired brain injury: a qualitative research study

Abstract

Different aspects were experienced as being important during the process of RTW after ABI. These aspects should be kept in mind during the process of RTW to make the outcome as successful as possible. It is advised to pay special attention to the recovery opportunities of an individual, to inform the employer, colleagues, occupation physician and the occupational specialist about ABI, and to support people with ABI for long time periods. An important role can be played by the rehabilitation centre.

The use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health to understand the health and functioning experiences of people with chronic conditions from the person perspective: a systematic review

“…All studies demonstrated triangulation except for six [54,[59][60][61][62][63]. Only 10 of the 37 studies did not describe the ICF in detail in the introduction [48,50,53,56,57,[64][65][66][67][68]. Twenty-seven studies described the ICF in detail, giving the reader a sound understanding of the framework.…”

“…Just under half the studies used the ICF during data collection by asking the participants open-ended questions reflecting the ICF components [48,50,51,53,55,56,60,63,[76][77][78][88][89][90][91][92] or asking for facilitators and barriers related to each component [67] (Table 4). Eight of these studies used six common questions based on the ICF components [48,51,56,77,78,90,92,93] (see Appendix A for questions).…”

“…Nineteen of the 37 studies chose not to go down the path of coding and conceptualised participant responses more broadly within the ICF components [34,49,50,55,[57][58][59][60][61][62][63]65,67,80,82,[97][98][99][100]. Twelve of the 37 studies used an inductive approach to content analysis which involved analysing the responses to identify themes before linking the themes to the ICF components [ [34,48,49,50,77] 5 Multiple Sclerosis [53,93,94,99] 4 Stroke [68,97,100] 3 Motor Neurone Disease [64] 1 Guillain-Barre Syndrome [52] 1 Parkinson's Disease [65] 1 Systemic Sclerosis [78] 1 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus [76] 1 Acquired Brain Injury [67] 1 Cerebral Palsy [54] 1 Huntington's Disease [55] 1 ICF to understand person perspective: a review 661…”

Return to work after traumatic brain injury: Cohort comparison and economic evaluation

“…However, despite clear descriptions of the models themselves, a lack of high quality evaluations and dearth of RCTs with robust economic evaluations means evidence to support their effectiveness or cost-effectiveness is weak [29,30]. The strongest evidence favours an individually-tailored, case-coordination approach [31,32] with early intervention to optimize employment outcomes [30,31,[33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

Living with an Acquired Brain Injury

“…Several studies discuss the important relationship between having strong informal support and returning to employment (Izaute et al 2008;van Velzen et al 2011). Being involved in productive activity, such as work or study has been found to be an important determinant in the facilitation of the use of natural community supports.…”