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Unemployed persons have a higher risk for mental disorders. There is some evidence that this risk is even greater for the elderly longterm unemployed. This study assesses the prevalence of mental disorders in this group.
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PMID: 21486542
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We found 2 variables assessed at the initial psychiatric evaluation which correlated significantly with the expert testimony. These variables were the resumption of social activities and self-estimation of the subject's health and capability. The proportion of response variation explained by the reg...
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PMID: 21192480
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We assessed guideline adherence via an audit of medical files, using 20 guideline-based performance indicators. Mean rates of guideline adherence were related to the duration until first and full return to work, using a Cox proportional hazards model.
The mean rate of the sum score of guideline adhe...
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PMID: 20798909
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Return to work following occupational injury is an important rehabilitation milestone; however, it does not mark the end of the return-to-work process. Following a return to the workplace, workers can experience difficulties that compromise their rehabilitation gains. Although there has been investi...
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PMID: 20414630
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Cancer rehabilitation is a relatively new subspecialty. Its goal is to help patients who have been diagnosed with cancer minimize the physical effects of treatment and disease and regain control over many aspects of their life. This article introduces the concept of cancer rehabilitation and offers...
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PMID: 21140763
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The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery offers a multifaceted, empirically supported interpretive framework for neuropsychological assessment founded upon raw scores referenced to a brain-damaged sample. Complementary approaches have used T scores from normal samples often composed of co...
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PMID: 21058581
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The Secretary is adopting as final, without changes, interim final regulations for the American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services (AIVRS) program to permit a consortium of Indian tribes to establish a separate legal entity to apply for a grant under this program. These final regulations are...
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PMID: 20552738
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Four main themes of important perpetuating factors for long-term sick leave were identified: health-related obstacles, personal obstacles, social obstacles, and work-related obstacles. Four main themes of important promoting factors for return to work were identified: favourable working conditions,...
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PMID: 20549159
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Heart transplantation is the most effective treatment option for patients with end-stage heart failure to improve exercise tolerance and quality of life. This increase in quality of life may assume that heart transplant recipients are also able to return to their work. In general, there are no medic...
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PMID: 20575476
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The staggering amount of health-related disability associated with psychiatric disorders is increasing medical claim costs. Government-run health systems and social health insurances are under pressure in almost every developed country. The complex interrelationship of these disorders and disability...
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PMID: 20575478
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Deficits in social functioning are meaningfully related to several domains of symptoms, and such deficits may be relatively stable in the early course of psychotic disorders. Such findings may inform development of psychosocial interventions targeting social functioning in first-episode patients.
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PMID: 20060685
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Over the past decade, there has been growth in the delivery of vocational rehabilitation services globally, as countries seek to control disability-related expenditure, yet there has been minimal research outside the United States on competencies required to work in this area. This study reports on...
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PMID: 19786880
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The limitations found in the prediction of a favourable global functional outcome may well be an indication for a need to address the role of other factors not commonly included in longitudinal studies of long-term outcomes in schizophrenia....
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PMID: 19751542
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We created "One-Euro-Jobs" for patients with chronic mental illnesses within regular employments in the confinements of our clinic. The choice of workplace was carried out according to the individual experience and knowledge and included the library, central buying and post office. Until now 15 ment...
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PMID: 20221982
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Rehabilitation of patients with cardiac pacemakers (CP) or implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) comprises secondary prevention of underlying cardiac disease, conditioning training activities and psychological education and includes furthermore the assessment of aggregate function, detection...
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PMID: 20373274
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To return to farming following the onset of a disabling injury or health condition is predicated on a supportive environment for the farm owner-operator. The purpose of this study was to examine barriers and facilitators of returning to work after an injury or acquired disability, and to identify co...
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PMID: 20407998
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We identified 'social twins' from a government register to create comparison groups at the local, county and national levels (n = 4 x 51 patients). Repeated-measures analysis of variance and logistic regression were used to analyse the data. The majority (59%) of the study group was employed 3 years...
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PMID: 19741547
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This literature review explored the experiences of workers with on-the-job injuries, and the effect of psychosocial factors on their abilities to return to work. Four common themes were discovered frustration, depression, discrimination, and obstacles in understanding how the workers compensation sy...
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PMID: 20128518
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Median DASH data of the non-clinical sample showed a functional impairment, since they deviated from 0. Men, aged 50-65, who were working manually showed the highest DASH score. Age did not have a significant effect on the DASH score of the clinical sample. The median overall DASH score of the clini...
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PMID: 20205068
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Results of the trial confirm that an intensified work-related programme with a well-defined multimodal composition like the one presented here is able to enhance the chances of participation in working life for patients with substantial work-related problems.
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart, New Yo...
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PMID: 20178056
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This document amends Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program regulations of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Specifically, it amends provisions concerning: Individuals' basic entitlement to vocational rehabilitation benefits and services; effective dates of induction into a rehabili...
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PMID: 20344869
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We are making changes to conform VA's regulations for self-employment programs for veterans, and for servicemembers awaiting discharge, to statutory provisions, including provisions limiting eligibility for certain supplies, equipment, stock, and license fees to individuals with the most severe serv...
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PMID: 20349549
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This document adopts without change the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on March 9, 2009, amending regulations of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) concerning periods of eligibility applicable to VA's provision of Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment benefits and services....
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PMID: 20349548
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The vast majority of the currently available vocational assessments are used to measure a worker's physical body functions and/or work capacity, while very few, if any, can be utilized to measure actual work performance. Within this research project, the authors conducted a brief review of the liter...
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PMID: 19658022
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Components contributing to work-ability go beyond the ability to perform particular work tasks. Measures intended to be used to inform vocational rehabilitation arguably need to consider all these factors to maximise likelihood of a sustainable return to work....
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PMID: 20170279
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Vocational rehabilitation consumers who are legally blind are a subgroup of the larger population of individuals with disabilities who have suffered high rates of unemployment; yet, the evaluation standards and performance indicators of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) show that each...
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PMID: 20593324
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Intellectual disability (ID) is a prevalent form of non-progressive cognitive impairment. The objectives of this articles are: to analyze the changes of ID in China, including its definition, prevalence, rehabilitation, education, vocational development, social life and support services; to review a...
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PMID: 20828986
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We evaluated the efficacy of a vocational training program including behavioral skills training, and a "performance cue system" (i.e., a proprietary iPhone application adapted for the study) to teach targeted social-vocational skills to six young adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. In two separ...
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PMID: 20800988
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Full community integration, or participation in society, is the ultimate goal of rehabilitation and of research conducted in the field of rehabilitation for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Community integration has been traditionally defined by 3 main areas: employment or other productive...
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PMID: 20134333
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The aim of this study is to establish whether the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) is an appropriate tool to evaluate the quality of work performance by comparing clients' results on the AMPS with the quality of the skills that they demonstrate on the shop floor. A convenience sample of...
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PMID: 20164615
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Throughout the process, pain representation was an indicator of the type of action the participants were ready to take to control the immediate or possible consequences of their pain. Using the context of a work rehabilitation trajectory we identified the differential impact of reconstruction or sta...
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PMID: 20164616
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These results demonstrate that it is feasible to construct a work readiness battery of assessments using the Readiness to Return to Work theory and that the measures included capture the effect of work rehabilitation on the constructs identified in the literature to effect work performance. Further...
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PMID: 20714098
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Impairment in executive functioning can occur after mild stroke, mild Traumatic Brain Injury, and neurodegenerative disease, and this can have deleterious effects on employment outcomes, occupational functioning, and general quality of life. What is not as well identified is the symbiotic relationsh...
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PMID: 20714101
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This case study report investigated the use of visual imagery to enhance sequencing of a work task in an individual with executive functioning impairment due to Asperger's Syndrome.
This individual's job was at risk due to his inability to correctly sequence his assigned work task in a busy pizza pa...
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PMID: 20714092
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To describe the implementation of a metacognitive contextual approach for facilitating return to work for individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI).
Participants included three individuals with ABI (one male aged 33 years with head injury, one male aged 51 years with stroke, and one female aged 4...
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PMID: 20714093
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This case study describes the changes in the quantity of work production of a 32 year-old male paralegal secondary to a mild brain injury from a racquetball racket blow to the frontal lobe area. The case illustrates how a work analysis can serve as an effective evaluation tool and how the utilizatio...
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PMID: 20714095
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To study whether severity of traumatic brain injury and the intelligence quotient are related to executive dysfunction.
Sixty-two adults with brain injury who were referred for a work capacity evaluation.
Retrospective review of severity of traumatic brain injury, intelligence quotient from a previo...
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PMID: 20714097
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There is great variability in the rate of return to work for persons who have suffered from brain injury. The aims of this study was: 1) to describe employment status of persons with stroke or traumatic brain injury, one year after the incident and 2) to investigate the impact of injury/stroke sever...
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PMID: 20714099
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To assess the work outcomes of individuals who have a mild to moderate stroke.
Individuals who (1) experienced a mild to moderate stroke as determined by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores (range 0-16); (2) were working full time prior to their stroke; and (3) were between...
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PMID: 20714100
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The IPS-Q is a valid measure of IPS knowledge and might prove useful for assessment, research, and training purposes. Practitioners sometimes assume that they understand a program model when in fact they have misconceptions. The IPS-Q provides an objective way to gauge practitioner knowledge....
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PMID: 20061254
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The findings support the feasibility and promise of implementing the Thinking Skills for Work program in the context of supported employment provided at psychosocial clubhouses....
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PMID: 20061255
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The number of persons in Japan visiting a medical institution for depression in 2009 exceeded one million, a fact that is attracting particular attention in the context of the more than 30000 completed suicides that take place in Japan every year. There has never been a time when it was more urgent...
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PMID: 21179668
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As of December 31, 2008, Network 7 increased their statewide results (patients aged 18-54 either engaged in VR services, attending school or working) by 2.5% over the 2007 baseline. For the focus group, as of June 30, 2009, results indicate that 40% of patients are either engaged in VR, working, or...
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PMID: 20050435
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