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Case management training needs to support vocational rehabilitation for case managers and general practitioners: a survey study

BACKGROUND: The use of the biopsychosocial model of health and case management for effective vocational rehabilitation (VR) has been confirmed for many health conditions. While Case and Condition Managers (CCMPs) use this approach in their everyday work, little is known about their views on training...

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Autores principales: Demou, Evangelia, Gaffney, Mairi, Khan, Furzana, Lando, John K, Macdonald, Ewan B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4039062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24884477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-95
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author Demou, Evangelia
Gaffney, Mairi
Khan, Furzana
Lando, John K
Macdonald, Ewan B
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Gaffney, Mairi
Khan, Furzana
Lando, John K
Macdonald, Ewan B
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description BACKGROUND: The use of the biopsychosocial model of health and case management for effective vocational rehabilitation (VR) has been confirmed for many health conditions. While Case and Condition Managers (CCMPs) use this approach in their everyday work, little is known about their views on training needs. A review of the training curriculum for General Practitioners’ (GPs) revealed little training in VR and the biopsychosocial model of care. This study aims to identify Case and Condition Managers and GPs perceptions of their training needs in relation to employability and VR. METHODS: 80 Case and Condition Managers and 304 GPs working in NHS Lanarkshire, providing a comparison group, were invited to participate in this study. A self-completion questionnaire was developed and circulated for online completion with a second round of hardcopy questionnaires distributed. RESULTS: In total 45 responses were obtained from CCMPs, 5 from occupational health nurses (62% response rate) and 60 from GPs (20% response rate). CCMPs and the nursing group expressed a need for training but to a lesser extent than GP’s. The GP responses demonstrated a need for high levels of training in case/condition management, the biopsychosocial model, legal and ethical issues associated with employment and VR, and management training. CONCLUSIONS: This survey confirms a need for further training of CCMPs and that respondent GPs in one health board are not fully equipped to deal with patients employability and vocational needs. GPs also reported a lack of understanding about the role of Case and Condition managers. Training for these professional groups and others involved in multidisciplinary VR could improve competencies and mutual understanding among those advising patients on return-to-work.
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spelling pubmed-40390622014-05-31 Case management training needs to support vocational rehabilitation for case managers and general practitioners: a survey study Demou, Evangelia Gaffney, Mairi Khan, Furzana Lando, John K Macdonald, Ewan B BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: The use of the biopsychosocial model of health and case management for effective vocational rehabilitation (VR) has been confirmed for many health conditions. While Case and Condition Managers (CCMPs) use this approach in their everyday work, little is known about their views on training needs. A review of the training curriculum for General Practitioners’ (GPs) revealed little training in VR and the biopsychosocial model of care. This study aims to identify Case and Condition Managers and GPs perceptions of their training needs in relation to employability and VR. METHODS: 80 Case and Condition Managers and 304 GPs working in NHS Lanarkshire, providing a comparison group, were invited to participate in this study. A self-completion questionnaire was developed and circulated for online completion with a second round of hardcopy questionnaires distributed. RESULTS: In total 45 responses were obtained from CCMPs, 5 from occupational health nurses (62% response rate) and 60 from GPs (20% response rate). CCMPs and the nursing group expressed a need for training but to a lesser extent than GP’s. The GP responses demonstrated a need for high levels of training in case/condition management, the biopsychosocial model, legal and ethical issues associated with employment and VR, and management training. CONCLUSIONS: This survey confirms a need for further training of CCMPs and that respondent GPs in one health board are not fully equipped to deal with patients employability and vocational needs. GPs also reported a lack of understanding about the role of Case and Condition managers. Training for these professional groups and others involved in multidisciplinary VR could improve competencies and mutual understanding among those advising patients on return-to-work. BioMed Central 2014-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4039062/ /pubmed/24884477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-95 Text en Copyright © 2014 Demou et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4039062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24884477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-95
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