Customized interventions improved employees' experience of recovery during the workday.

Background: There is a lack of research regarding factors promoting recovery during the workday and effective interventions.

Objective: To evaluate how different intervention activities may impact employees' experiences of recovery at the workplace.

Methods: Customized intervention activities based on qualitative results and a participatory approach were integrated among the employees at six primary health care centres (PHCCs; n = 166) during one year.

Strengthened workplace relationships facilitate recovery at work - qualitative experiences of an intervention among employees in primary health care.

Background: The literature on workplace interventions focusing on recovery is scarce; hence this study intends to expand that knowledge. An intervention was run for one year, aiming at increasing the experience of recovery during the workday among primary health care employees. During the intervention, different forms of recovery activities were integrated into the daily work at six primary health care centres.

Is it possible to gain energy at work? A questionnaire study in primary health care.

Objectives: The area of regenerative work is still close to unexplored. The aim was to explore the possibility for employees to gain energy at work.

Methods: Questionnaire to all employees (n = 599) from different professions in public and private primary health care centers in one health care district in Sweden.

Variation, companionship and manageability important for recovery during working hours: A qualitative focus group study.

Background: Lack of recovery from everyday strains and demands is connected to increased levels of stress-related problems and development of ill-health. There is much research on how to handle and prevent fatigue and stress in leisure time, but research on working time is more scarce. A recent study found that employees' experience of recovery during working hours was related to high self-rated health.

Recovery, work-life balance and work experiences important to self-rated health: A questionnaire study on salutogenic work factors among Swedish primary health care employees.

Background: There is a lack of information on positive work factors among health care workers.

Objective: To explore salutogenic work-related factors among primary health care employees.

Method: Questionnaire to all employees (n = 599) from different professions in public and private primary health care centers in one health care district in Sweden.

Implementation of a rehabilitation model for employees on long-term sick leave in the public sector: difficulties, counter-measures, and outcomes.

Objective: The aim was threefold: 1) to describe the experiences of driving and implementing a workplace-based rehabilitation intervention in cooperation with the occupational health service (OHS); 2) to investigate which people received multimodal and/or vocational rehabilitation measures; 3) to find predictors of return to work (RTW).

Participants: Altogether 779 employees on sick leave for 90 days or more with mainly musculoskeletal or psychological/stress-related problems, 90% women.

Methods: The HAKuL model was introduced, implying an early team assessment at the OHS and good access to rehabilitation measures.

Influence of self-reported work conditions and health on full, partial and no return to work after long-term sickness absence.

Objectives: This study aimed at describing the frequency of full, partial, and no return to work after long-term sick leave and at ascertaining the influence of psychosocial work conditions, work ability and health, reported before the onset of sick leave, on full and partial return to work.

Methods: Altogether 853 public-sector employees in Sweden, mainly women, with at least one sick leave lasting > or = 28 days, were studied. The outcome was the level of sick leave 2 years after the sick leave began.

Return to work expectation predicts work in chronic musculoskeletal and behavioral health disorders: prospective study with clinical implications.

Study Design: Prospective cohort study with 18-month follow-up.

Objective: To investigate if long-term sick listed persons' own predictions of their future return to work (RTW) have an impact on their RTW when controlling for other established factors.

Method: Postal questionnaires at baseline were sent to persons who had been on sick leave for more than 90 days, and were employed in five municipalities and four county councils in Sweden.

Long-term sick-listing among women in the public sector and its associations with age, social situation, lifestyle, and work factors: a three-year follow-up study.

Background: Since 1997 the number of long-term sick-listed people in Sweden has increased dramatically, especially among women employed in the public sector.

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate associations between age, social situation, lifestyle, work factors, and long-term sick-listing (> or =28 days), regardless of diagnosis, during a period of three years among women employed in the public sector.

Methods: Exposure information at baseline was recorded by a questionnaire.

Employer, insurance, and health system response to long-term sick leave in the public sector: policy implications.

This study has been conducted to describe the situation of long-term sick-listed persons employed in the public sector regarding the medical reasons of their sick leave, the duration of their problems, the duration of the actual sick leave, rehabilitation support, rehabilitation measures, and the persons expectations of the future. Response rate of a postal questionnaire, where 484 women and 51 men on long-term sick leave answered, was 69%. The study-group consisted of 90% women with a median age of 50 years.