Labor-force participation and working patterns among women and men who have survived cancer: A descriptive 9-year longitudinal cohort study.

Aims: Our aim was to investigate labor-force participation, working hours, job changes, and education over 9 years among persons who have survived more than 10 years after cancer, and compare it to controls.

Methods: Register data on 2629 persons who survived cancer were stratified by gender and compared to data on 5258 matched controls. Persons who survived cancer were aged 30-50 when diagnosed with cancer and had a work contract prior to diagnosis.

From shaky grounds to solid foundations: A salutogenic perspective on return to work after cancer.

Almost a third of employed individuals of working age fall out of work after cancer treatment. To explore cancer survivors' successful return to work, focusing on assets and resources utilized to resolve cancer- and work-related obstacles to achieve long-term employment. We interviewed eight cancer survivors who had remained at work for at least 3 years after cancer treatment.

A five-phase process model describing the return to sustainable work of persons who survived cancer: A qualitative study.

Purpose: We investigated persons who survived cancer (PSC) and their experiences in returning to sustainable work.

Methods: Videotaped, qualitative, in-depth interviews with previous cancer patients were analyzed directly using "Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis" (IPA). Four men and four women aged 42-59 years participated.

Subjective Health Complaints in Individuals with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis: Associations with the Severity of the Skin Condition and Illness Perceptions - A Cross-Sectional Study.

Purpose: High comorbidity has been reported among persons with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), but the occurrence of subjective health complaints (SHCs) in these patient groups is poorly understood. The study aimed to describe the prevalence of SHCs among individuals with psoriasis and PsA in Norway, and investigate whether the severity of their skin condition and their illness perceptions were associated with the number and severity of health complaints.

Method: Participants were recruited through the Psoriasis and Eczema Association of Norway (PEF) (n = 942).

Subjective health complaints, functional ability, fear avoidance beliefs, and days on sickness benefits after work rehabilitation - a mediation model.

Background: Long-term sick leave and withdrawal from working life is a concern in western countries. In Norway, comprehensive inpatient work rehabilitation may be offered to sick listed individuals at risk of long-term absence from work. Knowledge about prognostic factors for work outcomes after long-term sick leave and work rehabilitation is still limited.

Prognostic factors for return to work, sickness benefits, and transitions between these states: a 4-year follow-up after work-related rehabilitation.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine if age, gender, medical diagnosis, occupation, and previous sick leave predicted different probabilities for being at work and for registered sickness benefits, and differences in the transitions between any of these states, for individuals that had participated in an interdisciplinary work-related rehabilitation program.

Methods: 584 individuals on long-term sickness benefits (mean 9.3 months, SD = 3.

Multiple transitions in sick leave, disability benefits, and return to work. - A 4-year follow-up of patients participating in a work-related rehabilitation program.

Background: Return to work (RTW) after long-term sick leave can be a long-lasting process where the individual may shift between work and receiving different social security benefits, as well as between part-time and full-time work. This is a challenge in the assessment of RTW outcomes after rehabilitation interventions. The aim of this study was to analyse the probability for RTW, and the probabilities of transitions between different benefits during a 4-year follow-up, after participating in a work-related rehabilitation program.

Modern health worries, subjective health complaints, health care utilization, and sick leave in the Norwegian working population.

Background: Modern health worries (concerns about aspects of modern life affecting health) heve been associated with subjective health complaints and health care utilization.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between modern health worries (MHW) and subjective health complaints (SHC), health care utilization, and sick leave related to such complaints in the Norwegian working population.

Methods: A sample of the Norwegian working population (N = 569) answered a questionnaire which included the Subjective Health Complaints Inventory and a Norwegian version of the Modern Health Worries Scale.

Comorbid subjective health complaints in patients with sciatica: a prospective study including comparison with the general population.

Objective: Chronic nonspecific low back pain is accompanied by high rates of comorbid mental and physical conditions. The aims of this study were to investigate if patients with specific back pain, that is, sciatica caused by lumbar herniation, report higher rates of subjective health complaints (SHCs) than the general population and if there is an association between change in sciatica symptoms and change in SHCs over a 12-month period.

Methods: A multicenter cohort study of 466 sciatica patients was conducted with follow-up at 3 months and 1 year.

Health-Related Quality of Life, Subjective Health Complaints, Psychological Distress and Coping in Pakistani Immigrant Women With and Without the Metabolic Syndrome : The InnvaDiab-DEPLAN Study on Pakistani Immigrant Women Living in Oslo, Norway.

The increasingly high number of immigrants from South-East Asia with The Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is an important challenge for the public health sector. Impaired glucose is essential in MetS. The blood glucose concentration is not only governed by diet and physical activity, but also by psychological distress which could contribute to the development of MetS.

Change in the number of musculoskeletal pain sites: A 14-year prospective study.

Musculoskeletal pain that affects multiple body sites is typically regarded as comorbidity to single-site pain. Pain present in multiple sites, however, is more severe and disabling compared to single-site pain. This study aimed to prospectively investigate the change in the number of pain sites over 14years, in addition to identifying predictors of multi-site pain.

Does the number of musculoskeletal pain sites predict work disability? A 14-year prospective study.

Various risk factors associated with disability pensioning have been reported. This study investigated the relationship between the number of pain sites and risk of receiving a disability pension. We hypothesised that risk of work disability would increase as the number of pain sites increased, even after controlling for potential confounders.

Number of pain sites is associated with demographic, lifestyle, and health-related factors in the general population.

Research on widespread pain often relies upon case definitions bounded by duration limits or "cut-offs." In clinical reality, however, there are no natural cut-off points between localized and widespread pain. Rather, pain is best represented by a continuum of "widespreadness" from localized pain to pain spread across the body.

Localized or widespread musculoskeletal pain: does it matter?

Although epidemiological descriptions indicate that musculoskeletal pain is often widespread, still a lot of musculoskeletal pain is diagnosed and treated as localized pain. This led us to question whether localized pain exists at all and to evaluate its functional impact compared with that of widespread musculoskeletal pain. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the prevalence of localized and widespread musculoskeletal pain and its association to functional ability.

Comorbid subjective health complaints in low back pain.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To compare subjective health complaints in subacute patients with low back pain with reference values from a Norwegian normal population.

Summary Of Background Data: Comorbidity is common with nonspecific low back pain.