An innovative case management intervention for people at high risk of permanent work disability to improve rehabilitation coverage and coordination of health services: a randomized controlled trial (AktiFAME, DRKS00024648)

Remus, Lea; Grope, Marei; Lemke, Stella; Bethge, Matthias

doi:10.1186/s12913-022-07482-9

Table 2 Measures, assessment, expected scaling, and measurement occasions in the randomized controlled trial and the nested observational study

From: An innovative case management intervention for people at high risk of permanent work disability to improve rehabilitation coverage and coordination of health services: a randomized controlled trial (AktiFAME, DRKS00024648)

Outcome	Source and reference	Scaling	Baseline	End of the case management intervention	12-month follow-up
Primary outcome
Utilization of medical or vocational rehabilitation services	Administrative data from the individual pension insurance account	Binary			X
Secondary outcomes
Employment	Administrative data from the individual pension insurance account	Continuous	X		X
Receipt of unemployment benefits	Administrative data from the individual pension insurance account	Continuous	X		X
Receipt of sickness benefits	Administrative data from the individual pension insurance account	Continuous	X		X
Disability pension	Administrative data from the individual pension insurance account	Binary	X		X
Tertiary outcomes
Physician visits	Own development	Continuous	X¹		X
Psychosocial health	HEALTH-49 [17]	Continuous	X¹		X
Self-reported prognosis of employability	SPE [18]	Continuous	X¹		X
Limitations on participation	IMET [19]	Continuous	X¹		X
Health state	EQ-5D-5L [20]	Continuous	X¹		X
Perceived stress	PSS-10 [21]	Continuous	X¹		X
Social support	F-SozU K-6 [22]	Continuous	X¹		X
Life satisfaction	SOEP [23]	Continuous	X¹		X
Information about services supporting participation	Own development	Continuous	X¹	X²	X
Work participation	Own development	Binary	X¹	X²	X
Sick leave duration in weeks	Own development	Continuous	X¹		X
Work ability	WAS [24]	Continuous	X¹		X
Sociodemographic data	Own development	Nominal/continuous	X¹	X²	X
Dose delivered: telephone counseling	Computerized sheet (own development)	Binary/continuous		X²
Dose delivered: one-on-one interview	Computerized sheet (own development)	Binary/continuous		X²
Dose delivered: case management	Computerized sheet (own development)	Binary/continuous		X²
Initiated services	Own development	Binary		X²
Needs assessment	Own development	Continuous		X²
Relationship with case manager	Own development	Continuous		X²
Competence of case manager	Own development	Continuous		X²
Goal attainment	Own development	Continuous		X²
Content of case management	Own development	Continuous		X²
Rating of case management components	Own development	Continuous		X²

EQ-5D-5L 5-level EQ-5D, F-SozU K-6 6-item brief form of the Perceived Social Support Questionnaire (Fragebogen zur Sozialen Unterstützung), HEALTH-49 Hamburg modules for the assessment of general aspects of psychosocial health for therapeutic practice (Hamburger Module zur Erfassung allgemeiner Aspekte psychosozialer Gesundheit für die therapeutische Praxis), IMET Index for the measurement of limitations of participation (Index zur Messung von Einschränkungen der Teilhabe), PSS-10 Perceived Stress Scale, SOEP Socio-Economic Panel, SPE Self-reported prognosis of employability, WAS Work Ability Score
¹ randomized controlled trial and observational study; ² observational study only

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