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Facilitators, barriers and support needs for staying at work with a chronic condition: a focus group study

BACKGROUND: Working with a chronic condition can be challenging. Providing support to workers with a chronic condition can help them to stay at work and prevent work-related problems. Workers with a chronic condition who successfully stay at work can provide valuable input for the development of eff...

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Autores principales: Bosma, A. R., Boot, C. R. L., Schaafsma, F. G., Anema, J. R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7006125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32033556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8320-x
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author Bosma, A. R.
Boot, C. R. L.
Schaafsma, F. G.
Anema, J. R.
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description BACKGROUND: Working with a chronic condition can be challenging. Providing support to workers with a chronic condition can help them to stay at work and prevent work-related problems. Workers with a chronic condition who successfully stay at work can provide valuable input for the development of effective supportive interventions to prevent exit from work and facilitate sustainable employment. The aim of this study is to explore the lived experiences of workers with a chronic condition and identify existing barriers, facilitators and possible support needs for staying at work. METHODS: Four focus groups were conducted between August and December 2017 with workers with one or more chronic conditions (n = 30). Participants included employees and (partially) self-employed workers. All focus group data were transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed. RESULTS: Disclosure and expressing one’s needs were considered important personal facilitators for staying at work. Environmental facilitators included receiving practical information on working with a chronic condition and social and employer support. Environmental barriers were identified in the work environment, the health care system and service provision, e.g., manager and co-worker’s lack of knowledge about working with a chronic condition, a lack of focus on work in the course of treatment for a chronic condition, dissatisfaction with occupational physician support, and the absence of support for self-employed workers. Provided support should be available to all workers, and be proactive and tailored to the workers’ specific support needs. CONCLUSIONS: A variety of facilitators, barriers and support needs were identified in various domains. By addressing environmental barriers (e.g., by integrating work in the course of treatment and creating supportive work environments), sustainable employment by workers with a chronic condition can be promoted.
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spelling pubmed-70061252020-02-11 Facilitators, barriers and support needs for staying at work with a chronic condition: a focus group study Bosma, A. R. Boot, C. R. L. Schaafsma, F. G. Anema, J. R. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Working with a chronic condition can be challenging. Providing support to workers with a chronic condition can help them to stay at work and prevent work-related problems. Workers with a chronic condition who successfully stay at work can provide valuable input for the development of effective supportive interventions to prevent exit from work and facilitate sustainable employment. The aim of this study is to explore the lived experiences of workers with a chronic condition and identify existing barriers, facilitators and possible support needs for staying at work. METHODS: Four focus groups were conducted between August and December 2017 with workers with one or more chronic conditions (n = 30). Participants included employees and (partially) self-employed workers. All focus group data were transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed. RESULTS: Disclosure and expressing one’s needs were considered important personal facilitators for staying at work. Environmental facilitators included receiving practical information on working with a chronic condition and social and employer support. Environmental barriers were identified in the work environment, the health care system and service provision, e.g., manager and co-worker’s lack of knowledge about working with a chronic condition, a lack of focus on work in the course of treatment for a chronic condition, dissatisfaction with occupational physician support, and the absence of support for self-employed workers. Provided support should be available to all workers, and be proactive and tailored to the workers’ specific support needs. CONCLUSIONS: A variety of facilitators, barriers and support needs were identified in various domains. By addressing environmental barriers (e.g., by integrating work in the course of treatment and creating supportive work environments), sustainable employment by workers with a chronic condition can be promoted. BioMed Central 2020-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7006125/ /pubmed/32033556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-8320-x Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title Facilitators, barriers and support needs for staying at work with a chronic condition: a focus group study
title_full Facilitators, barriers and support needs for staying at work with a chronic condition: a focus group study
title_fullStr Facilitators, barriers and support needs for staying at work with a chronic condition: a focus group study
title_full_unstemmed Facilitators, barriers and support needs for staying at work with a chronic condition: a focus group study
title_short Facilitators, barriers and support needs for staying at work with a chronic condition: a focus group study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7006125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32033556
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