The mediating role of coping between self-reported health complaints and functional limitations, self-assessed work ability and work status of long-term sick-listed cancer survivors.

Our purpose was to investigate the possible mediating role of active coping and passive coping between self-reported health complaints and functional limitations, as assessed by an insurance physician (IP), self-assessed work ability and work status in cancer survivors on long-term sick leave. Validated questionnaires were used for self-reported health complaints, work ability and work status. The functional limitations of the respondents were transformed into scales for mental and physical limitations and limitations in working hours.

Predictors of fatigue and work ability in cancer survivors.

Background: Workers diagnosed with cancer are at risk for job loss or work disability.

Aims: To determine predictors of fatigue and work ability at 36 months after diagnosis in a population of cancer survivors.

Methods: Individuals diagnosed with cancer and who applied for work disability benefit at 24 months of sick leave were surveyed at the time of application and again 12 months later.

Sustained employability and health-related quality of life in cancer survivors up to four years after diagnosis.

Background: Most cancer survivors are able to return to work at some point after diagnosis. However, literature on sustained employability and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is limited. Therefore, the aims of this study were to explore the influence of change in employment status on HRQoL in cancer survivors long term after diagnosis, and to identify predictors of work continuation in occupationally active survivors.

Therapeutic Work as a Facilitator for Return to Paid Work in Cancer Survivors.

Purpose The increase of flexible employment in European labour markets has contributed to workers' risk of job loss. For sick-listed workers with chronic illnesses, such as cancer, and especially those without an employment contract, participation in therapeutic work may be an important step towards paid employment. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of therapeutic employment as facilitator for return to paid work, in a cohort of sick-listed cancer survivors (CSs) with and without an employment contract.

Work disability assessment of cancer survivors: insurance physicians' perspectives.

Background: Assessing work disability in cancer survivors is a complex decision-making process. In the Netherlands, physicians employed by the Dutch Social Security Agency (SSA) play a key role in assessing work disability of cancer survivors on long-term sick leave.

Aims: To investigate the aspects physicians consider in assessing work disability in cancer survivors, their experiences related to the use of guidelines and their needs related to the use of a prediction rule that aims to support work disability assessments.