Employee retention and integrated disability management practices as demand side factors.

Introduction: Demand-side employment research on company policies and practices related to retention and absence and disability management (ADM) can contribute to our understanding of employment issues related to people with disabilities from the employers' perspective.

Aim: To examine company ADM and retention practices and their effectiveness, as well as how these company policies and practices might influence hiring of people with disabilities.

Method: Disability Management Employer Coalition employer members (N = 650) were surveyed by internet and the survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple regression.

The role of job strain on return to work after carpal tunnel surgery.

Aims: To examine the impact of job strain (that is, high psychological job demands and low job control) on return to work and work role functioning at two months, six months, or both, following carpal tunnel release surgery.

Methods: A community based cohort of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) patients from physician practices was recruited between April 1997 and October 1998 throughout Maine (USA). 128 patients at two months and 122 at six months completed all relevant questions.

Management and employee agreement on reports of organizational policies and practices important in return to work following carpal tunnel surgery.

This study's purpose was to assess the agreement between management and employee ratings of organizational policies and practices (OPP) involved in the return to work process following carpal tunnel surgery. As a part of the prospective community-based Maine Carpal Tunnel II Study, 65 manager and employee pairs completed a questionnaire tapping four OPP dimensions. people oriented culture, safety climate, ergonomic practices, and disability management.

Predictors of successful work role functioning after carpal tunnel release surgery.

This study identified the clinical, individual, and workplace predictors of successful work role functioning (WRF) after carpal tunnel release surgery (CTRS). A community-based cohort (n = 197) was followed for 6 months post-CTRS. Predictors of successful WRF were analyzed prospectively using ordinal logistic regression.

Ambulation in the adolescent with myelomeningocele. I: Early childhood predictors.

Birth records identified 192 children with myelomeningocele born in Minnesota in the years 1966-1970. In 1981 current ambulation, neurologic level, and early motor achievement were determined in 77 of the surviving 80 children by chart review and questionnaire. Of these 77, 20 were not walking at all, one was walking only in therapy, and the remaining 56 were community ambulators (16 of these occasionally used wheelchairs).

Physical activity capacity in children with myelomeningocele.

Thirty-three children (10 to 15 years of age) with myelomeningocele were studied to determine isometric muscle strength of hip and knee extension, range of hip and knee extension, usual and maximal ambulatory velocities, maximal aerobic capacity, and the energy cost (oxygen uptake) of ambulation versus wheelchair usage in subjects who both walked and wheeled. Subjects were placed into one of four groups depending on their level of motor function (those with motor levels at L2 and above, L3-4, L5 to sacral, and without motor deficit). Maximal ambulatory velocity correlated with strength of the hip extensor (r = 0.

Cancer rehabilitation. An analysis of 36 program approaches.

Information about comprehensive rehabilitation for patients with cancer is limited. Only a few descriptions of existing models are found in the literature. A survey questionnaire concerning the description and operation of cancer rehabilitation programs was developed and mailed to identified programs in 95 facilities throughout the country.