Objectives
depression, anxiety
SECONDARY
The primary aim was to study whether an early structured enhanced cooperation among the care manager, rehabilitation coordinator and GP combined with workplace cooperation via a person-centred dialogue meeting with the patient’s employer can reduce sick leave time and increase RTW and WAI compared with care manager contact ‘as usual’. A secondary aim was to study lapse of depression, anxiety and stress-related symptoms as well as perceived WAI and QoL during 12 months. Thus, we regarded it as important also to examine the lapse of mental symptoms to study the effects of the intervention on the patient’s mental state. As the intervention was based on structured enhanced cooperation between several staff members within the PCC, randomisation at PCC level was chosen.