Rehabilitation for Survivors of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest

The primary outcome of the clinical trial is labour market participation, defined as a dichotomized outcome, employment vs. on social transfer payment 12 months after hospital discharge.

3 multi-state models (working full-time, Working part-time, sick leave and the absorbing stated retired). Patients are not very likely to die during follow-up; this state may be superfluous. In the model working hours and retirement to private pensions will need to be assessed using self-reported data.

Readiness for return-to-work (RRTW) consisting of 22 items.

Single items covering degree of RTW in hours weekly (compared to prior to the cardiac arrest), job describtion (changed Y/N) and job modification (changes Y/N).

The descriptive system comprises five dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. Each dimension has 5 levels: no problems, slight problems, moderate problems, severe problems and extreme problems. The patient is asked to indicate his/her health state by ticking the box next to the most appropriate statement in each of the five dimensions. This decision results in a 1-digit number that expresses the level selected for that dimension. The digits for the five dimensions can be combined into a 5-digit number that describes the patient's health state.

The EQ VAS records the patient's self-rated health on a vertical visual analogue scale, where the endpoints are labelled 'The best health you can imagine' and 'The worst health you can imagine'. The VAS can be used as a quantitative measure of health outcome that reflect the patient's own judgement.

The MFI is a 20-item self-report instrument designed to measure fatigue. It covers the following dimensions: general fatigue, physical fatigue, reduced activity, reduced motivation and mental fatigue.

The questionnaire comprises seven questions for anxiety and seven questions for depression

The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is a self-report questionnaire that assesses sleep quality over a 1-month time interval. The measure consists of 19 individual items, creating 7 components that produce one global score

HLQ has nine scales that each measure an aspect of the multidimensional construct of health literacy.

The HeartQoL questionnaire comprises 14-items forming a physical, emotional subscales and a global score,

The Impact of Event Scale - Revised (IES-R) measures syptoms related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) The IES-R has 22 questions, that comprises a total subjective stress scale and three subscales (Intrusion, Avoidance, Hyperarousal)

The MoCA is a cognitive screening test designed to assist Health Professionals in the detection of mild cognitive impairment

Measures the quality of a person's ADL task performance

the ability to think, reason, and remember

WAIS-IV

RBANS

is a neuropsychological assessment in which examinees are asked to reproduce a complicated line drawing

A screening instrument to assess neurological dysfunction

The Five-Point Test is a test for measuring figural fluency functions

a performance test designed to be an IQ test

Verbal fluency tests are a kind of psychological test in which participants have to produce as many words as possible from a category in a given time

Verbal fluency tests are a kind of psychological test in which participants have to produce as many words as possible from a category in a given time