Validation of Lam assessment of employment readiness (C-LASER) for Chinese injured workers

Chan, Henky H K; Li‐Tsang, Cecilia W. P.; Chan, Che Hin; Lam, Chow S.; Hui, Karen Lo; Bard, Christine C.

doi:10.1007/s10926-006-9050-3

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“…The third approach focuses on people's work‐readiness ‘career motivation’. Generally, research on this topic focuses on adults with physical or intellectual barriers to employment, such as chronic health problems, head injury or intellectual disability (Chan et al., ; O'Neill & Wolf, ; Rose et al., ). A common way to assess this type of career motivation draws on a conceptual framework originally designed for use in addiction research.…”

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Educating young adults to be work‐ready in Ireland and the United Kingdom: A review of programmes and outcomes

Symonds

O’Sullivan

2017

Review of Education

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Across Europe, young adult unemployment remains an important issue. Those who have grown up in contexts of social and educational disadvantage can find it particularly difficult to find work. In response, governments, charitable foundations and in the rare case, researchers, have developed programmes of training and work‐based learning to help them enter the workforce. These programmes aim to improve the young adults’ work‐readiness (also known as work‐preparedness or career‐readiness), which can be viewed as a set of competencies including career motivation, basic skills, job‐specific skills, higher‐order thinking skills, social skills and personal characteristics and attitude. Despite a growing literature on these competencies, major work‐readiness programmes in Ireland and the UK are documented as trying to get young people into work quickly, rather than on enhancing their work‐readiness thereby improving human capital. We examine this issue by reviewing work‐readiness programmes’ designs and outcomes, in relation to conceptualisations of work‐readiness and Elder's () life‐course theory. In doing so we provide detail on how programmes connect to the socio‐historical context, operate in relation to the school‐to‐work transition, impact young people through networks of linked lives and influence their agency in young adulthood and opportunity for cumulative agency throughout the life course.

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Educating young adults to be work‐ready in Ireland and the United Kingdom: A review of programmes and outcomes

Symonds

O’Sullivan

2017

Review of Education

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“…Because the readiness of the workplace is a key factor for successful RTW, the measurement of RTW preparation involves all employees, even those without a health condition. Examples of instruments include the Lam’s Assessment of Employment Readiness (LASER) [49] and the Readiness for Return-To-Work (RRTW) scale [50], both of which tap into the sick-listed workers psychological readiness for RTW. These and other outcome measures of this type are often used by clinicians when designing return-to-work interventions.…”

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“…The measures are useful for describing and predicting RTW movements from return to work with limitations (Type 3) to at work with no disability (Type 0), including “proportion of time at work” [87] and “presenteeism” [12]. The workers’ movements between no disability (WD Type 0), working while experiencing health-related limitations (WD Type 1) can be assessed in terms of “productivity” [8–10, 13], “presenteeism” [12], “work-related limitations and abilities” [16–31, 88] and readiness of workers for increasing work hours or work duty (e.g., modified C-LASER [49]).…”

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Workplace Outcomes in Work-Disability Prevention Research: A Review with Recommendations for Future Research

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Introduction Outcome assessment is a central issue in work disability prevention research. The goal of this paper was to (1) ascertain the most salient workplace outcomes; (2) evaluate the congruence between business and science perspectives; (3) illustrate new perspectives on assessing longitudinal outcomes; and (4) provide recommendations for advancing outcome evaluation in this area of research. Methods The authors participated in a year-long collaboration that culminated in a sponsored 3-day conference, “Improving Research of Employer Practices to Prevent Disability”, held October 14–16, 2015, in Hopkinton, MA, USA. The collaboration included a topical review of the literature, group conference calls to identify key areas and challenges, drafting of initial documents, review of industry publications, and a conference presentation that included feedback from peer researchers and a question/answer session with a special panel of knowledge experts with direct employer experience. Results Numerous workplace work-disability prevention outcome measures were identified. Analysis indicated that their applicability varied depending on the type of work disability the worker was experiencing. For those who were working, but with health-related work limitations (Type 1), predominant outcomes were measures of productivity, presenteeism, and work-related limitations. For those who were off work due to a health condition (Type 2), predominant outcomes were measures of time off work, supervisor/employee interactions, and return-to-work (RTW) preparation. For those who had returned to work (Type 3), predominant outcomes were measures of presenteeism, time until RTW, percentage of work resumption, employment characteristics, stigma, work engagement, co-worker interactions, and sustained or durable RTW. For those who had withdrawn from the labor force (Type 4), predominant outcomes were cost and vocational status. Discussion Currently available measures provide a good basis to use more consistent outcomes in disability prevention in the future. The research area would also benefit from more involvement of employers as stakeholders, and multilevel conceptualizations of disability outcomes.

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“…They were service users of hospital out-patient clinics or community rehabilitation centers. The inclusion criteria were: (1) an age range of 18–60; (2) a secondary school education or above; (3) a history of work-related injuries within the last 3 years; (4) either in the pre-contemplation (PC) or contemplation to action stages of readiness of return-to-work (RD) as defined by the Chinese version of Lam assessment of employment readiness (C-LASER) (Chan et al, 2006 ). The exclusion criteria were: (1) illiterate or unable to read traditional Chinese characters; (2) reported a diagnosis of other significant medical or psychiatric illness.…”

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Cognitive and Emotional Appraisal of Motivational Interviewing Statements: An Event-Related Potential Study

Hui

Wong

Siu

et al. 2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The counseling process involves attention, emotional perception, cognitive appraisal, and decision-making. This study aimed to investigate cognitive appraisal and the associated emotional processes when reading short therapists' statements of motivational interviewing (MI). Thirty participants with work injuries were classified into the pre-contemplation (PC, n = 15) or readiness stage of the change group (RD, n = 15). The participants viewed MI congruent (MI-C), MI incongruent (MI-INC), or control phrases during which their electroencephalograms were captured. The results indicated significant Group × Condition effects in the frontally oriented late positive complex (P600/LPC). The P600/LPC's amplitudes were more positive-going in the PC than in the RD group for the MI congruent statements. Within the PC group, the amplitudes of the N400 were significantly correlated (r = 0.607–0.649) with the participants' level of negative affect. Our findings suggest that the brief contents of MI statements alone can elicit late cognitive and emotional appraisal processes beyond semantic processing.

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Validation of Lam assessment of employment readiness (C-LASER) for Chinese injured workers

Abstract: The Chinese version LASER was useful for reflecting the readiness of injured workers returning to work. However, the pathology associated with the injuries together with the workers' compensation system might influence the process of change which warrants further study area.

Cited by 18 publications

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Educating young adults to be work‐ready in Ireland and the United Kingdom: A review of programmes and outcomes

Educating young adults to be work‐ready in Ireland and the United Kingdom: A review of programmes and outcomes

Workplace Outcomes in Work-Disability Prevention Research: A Review with Recommendations for Future Research

Cognitive and Emotional Appraisal of Motivational Interviewing Statements: An Event-Related Potential Study

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