Rehabilitation of injured workers with chronic pain: a stage of change phenomenon.

Objective: This study was designed to explore the stages of change involved in return to work (RTW) for a group of workers who had been suffering from chronic pain.

Method: The participants were 67 (mean age = 42.67) injured workers who participated in a six-week RTW program.

Psychosocial aspects of injured workers' returning to work (RTW) in Hong Kong.

Introduction: This study was designed to explore the psychosocial aspects of injured workers, their self-perceived capacity and how these factors influence their success in Return To Work (RTW).

Method: Seventy-five subjects were recruited from the Hong Kong Workers' Health Centre and were assessed on three occasions consisting of interviews and four self-rated instruments including the Chinese Lam's Assessment of Employment Readiness (C-LASER), the SF-36 health survey, the Chinese State Trait and the Anxiety Inventory (C-STAI).

Results: Results showed that the contemplation and pre-contemplation sub-scores of C-LASER appeared to be the determining factors in predicting subjects' return-to-work status.