Managing work participation for people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases

Ross Wilkie; Mathilda Bjork; Katia M Costa-Black; Marty Parker; Glenn Pransky

doi:10.1016/j.berh.2020.101517

Managing work participation for people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases

Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2020 Apr;34(2):101517. doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2020.101517. Epub 2020 Apr 19.

Authors

Ross Wilkie¹, Mathilda Bjork², Katia M Costa-Black³, Marty Parker⁴, Glenn Pransky⁵

Affiliations

¹ Versus Arthritis Primary Care Centre, School of Primary, Community and Social Care, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom; MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work, University of Southampton, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Unit of Occupational Therapy, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Department of Rheumatology, Heart and Medicine Center, Region Östergötland, Sweden. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ The British Standards Institution, Environmental Health and Safety Services and Solutions, Hillsboro, OR, USA; Graduate Program in Ergonomics and Biomechanics, School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁴ Versus Arthritis Primary Care Centre, School of Primary, Community and Social Care, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁵ Dept. of Quantitative Health Sciences, Univ of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 32321677
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2020.101517

Abstract

Improving work participation for individuals with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs), has gained increasing interest over the last 10 years. New approaches are based upon increasing adoption of a biopsychosocial approach to improving work participation, incorporating evidence that health professionals within multidisciplinary teams have a key and critical role. In particular, interaction between health professionals and employers, and rehabilitation services that are linked to the workplace are key elements for improving work participation for people with RMDs. This review outlines recent research that underpins approaches for health professionals to develop their role in improving work participation for people with RMDs based on recent research; it outlines how to measure work-related outcomes in clinical practice, models of work participation, and approaches for health professionals to improve work participation outcomes. The potential for developing the role of health professionals in future years is also outlined.

Keywords: Absenteeism; Biopsychosocial; Employment; Health professionals; Multidisciplinary team; Occupational rehabilitation; Presenteeism; Vocational; Work; Work disability.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Absenteeism*
Humans
Musculoskeletal Diseases* / therapy
Workplace

Grants and funding

G0501798/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom