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NCT Number: NCT03348410

Joint Coordination to Facilitate the Transition From Sick Leave to Employment

GESAM is a randomized controlled intervention study that addressed women and men on long-term sick leave in Uppsala County. Participants which are on sick leave due to mental illness and/or pain and were expected to reach the time limit within the in health insurance will be offered to participate in an intervention.

Those how give informed consent will be randomly assigned one of the following groups: 1) informing and motivating intervention with insurance officer 2) control group. The main purpose of the study is to facilitate the return to work (preventing a return to the public health insurance) during the project period.

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Key information

Conditions

Long Term Sick Leave Absent-mindedness

Age range

18 year–64 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Uppsala university

Uppsala, SE-75122, Sweden

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • On sick leave
  • Risk of losing sick leave compensation

Exclusion criteria

  • Major mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder type I, severe social dysfunction/personality disorder)
  • Cancer disease

Treatment and study plan

Motivational Interviewing

Behavioral

Motivational interviewing with insurance officer

Primary outcomes

  1. Return to work (RTW)

    Time frame: One year

    Return to work measured as time to participation in the labor force

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Uppsala University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Joint Coordination (GESAM) - Collaboration Project to Facilitate the Transition From Sick Leave to Employment

Acronym: GESAM

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Nov 20, 2017
Registry last updated
Oct 19, 2020

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