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Cross-Cultural Use of Measurements
In recent years, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures are rapidly becoming standard tools for evaluating clinical effectiveness in patients and for assessing health status in populations (Guillein, ...
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Measuring the Impact of Organizational Behaviors on Work Disability Prevention and Management
Increased rates of work disability and its associated costs have prompted businesses to develop innovative approaches to managing the health and productivity of the work force. The paper 1) provides practition...
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Employer, Physical Therapist, and Employee Outcomes in the Management of Work-Related Upper Extremity Disorders
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among employer, provider, and patient outcome measures and how they are related to clinical factors and other occupation-related factors. Data were...
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Evidence-Based Care for Depression in Maine: Dissemination of the Kaiser Permanente Nurse TeleCare Program
This paper describes the program model, implementation and preliminary results from a dissemination of a nurse case management program for treating depression in primary care. The program design was modeled af...
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Management and Employee Agreement on Reports of Organizational Policies and Practices Important in Return to Work Following Carpal Tunnel Surgery
This study’s purpose was to assess the agreement between management and employee ratings of organizational policies and practices (OPP) involved in the return to work process following carpal tunnel surgery. A...
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Assessing a conceptual framework of health-related quality of life in a HIV/AIDS population
With the recognition of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) as an important outcome in the course of HIV-disease, it is important to gain a better understanding of the complex relationships among the variou...
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Workplace Organizational Policies and Practices in Ontario Educational Facilities
Background: Workplace organizational policies and practices (OPPs) play a pivotal role in managing injury and disability. This study identifies the workplace OPPs in Ontario’s education sector. Methods: OPPs were...
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Disability Management Practices in Ontario Health Care Workplaces
Background: Workplace disability management programs are important in managing injury and disability. Methods: A stratified random sample of 188 employers in health care workplaces (71 ho...
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Computer Use Patterns Associated with Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Symptoms
Introduction Over half of surveyed college students are experiencing pain they are attributing to computer use. The study objective was to evaluate the effect of computing patterns on upp...
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Introduction to Special Section: Systematic Reviews for Prevention and Management of Musculoskeletal Disorders
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A Systematic Review of Workplace Ergonomic Interventions with Economic Analyses
Introduction This article reports on a systematic review of workplace ergonomic interventions with economic evaluations. The review sought to answer the question: “what is the credible evidence that incremental i...
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Systematic Review of the Role of Occupational Health and Safety Interventions in the Prevention of Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Symptoms, Signs, Disorders, Injuries, Claims and Lost Time
Background Little is known about the most effective occupational health and safety (OHS) interventions to reduce upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and injuries. Methods A systematic review used a b...
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Effectiveness of Health and Safety in Small Enterprises: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Evaluations of Interventions
Introduction This systematic review was conducted to identify effective occupational health and safety interventions for small businesses. Methods The review focused on peer-reviewed intervention studies conducte...
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Occupational Safety and Health Interventions to Reduce Musculoskeletal Symptoms in the Health Care Sector
Introduction Health care work is dangerous and multiple interventions have been tested to reduce the occupational hazards. Methods A systematic review of the literature used a best evidence synthesis approach to ...
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Open AccessSystematic Review of Intervention Practices for Depression in the Workplace
Design Systematic Review. Objective To determine which intervention approaches to manage depression in the workplace have been successful and yielded value for employers in developed economies. D...
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Prognostic Factors for Successful Work Functioning in the General Working Population
Purpose To help workers to stay at work in a healthy productive and sustainable way and for the development of interventions to improve work functioning, it is important to have insight in progno...
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ-25) in Workers’ Compensation Claimants with Chronic Upper-Limb Disorders
Purpose: To examine the factorial validity of the Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ-25) among workers’ compensation claimants with chronic upper-limb disorders. Methods: Attendees of the WSIB S...
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire to Spanish Spoken in Spain
Purpose The Work Role Functioning Questionnaire (WRFQ) is a tool developed in the United States to measure work disability and assess the perceived impact of health problems on worker ability to ...
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Reliability and Validity of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire (Spanish Version)
Purpose Recently, the cross-cultural adaptation of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire to Spanish was carried out, achieving satisfactory psychometric properties. Now we examined the reliabil...
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Open AccessThe Predictive Validity of the Return-to-Work Self-Efficacy Scale for Return-to-Work Outcomes in Claimants with Musculoskeletal Disorders
Purpose To examine the predictive validity of the Return-to-Work Self-Efficacy (RTWSE) Scale in terms of the scale’s baseline absolute values and of changes in self-efficacy scores, with ...
