Evaluation of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program with emphasis on musculoskeletal disorders: a 5-year follow-up.

Objective: The aim of this study was to perform a 5-year follow-up of a 7-week multidisciplinary rehabilitation program focusing on pain, physical disability, anxiety and depression as well as stress and sick leave and to compare the results from the baseline, a 2-year follow-up and this 5-year follow-up.

Participants: Out of 60 participants of the original rehabilitation program 54 were followed-up after 5 years.

Methods: The rehabilitation program was individually adapted and consisted of physical activity in several forms as well as theoretical and practical education.

Back to work: evaluation of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program with emphasis on mental symptoms; A two-year follow up.

Background: The aim of this investigation was to analyze temporal changes in anxiety, depression, and stress in patients with musculoskeletal pain for a period of up to 2 years after a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program, in relation to sick-listing (registered with The Swedish Social Insurance Agency [Forsakringskassan] for sickness benefit).

Methods: Ten persons with full-time sick leave (absence from work for medical reasons) (group 1) and 49 with part-time or no sick leave (group 2) at the end of the 2-year study period participated. It was shown in a previous study that group 1 had higher pain rating and higher subjective physical disability than group 2, with little or no improvement during and after rehabilitation.

Barriers to and possibilities of returning to work after a multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme. A qualitative interview study.

Objective: The aim of this qualitative study was to explore experiences of sick-listed persons of not returning to work during a six-year period after participation in an extensive multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme.

Participants: The study comprised ten participants with musculoskeletal disorders, mainly neck and back pain.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed by manifest content analysis.

Two-year outcome of a multidisciplinary vocational rehabilitation programme focused on range of motion of the neck and back.

Purpose: To investigate whether improvement of range of motion (ROM) in persons with musculoskeletal disorders, mainly neck and back pain, was associated with a favourable development regarding physical disability, pain, and health-related quality of life (QoL), and whether such development differed between sick-listed and non-sick-listed persons during and up to 2 years after a multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme.

Methods: Ten persons with full-time sick leave (Group I) and 49 with part-time or no sick leave (Group II) at the end of a previous study participated. It was shown in that study that Group I had higher pain rating and higher subjective physical disability than Group II, with little or no improvement during and after rehabilitation.

Physical activity, health, body mass index, sleeping habits and body complaints in Australian senior high school students.

Unlabelled: Adolescents in the industrial world are becoming less physically active and are increasingly adopting a sedentary life-style in front of computers and television screens.

Objective: to determine self-related health, physical activity, sleeping habits, prevalence of overweight, and body complaints in Australian senior high school students.

Methods: Participants were 466 high school students aged 15-17 years enrolled in academic and vocational programs.

Back to work - a two-year outcome of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme focused on physical function and pain.

Purpose: To analyze why some responded positively to rehabilitation and why some did not.

Method: Sixty participants with musculoskeletal disorders, mainly neck and back pain participated in a 7-week rehabilitation programme which was based on a combination of theoretical and practical education and physical activities. Before and after the programme and 6, 12 and 24 months after completion of the programme all participants were evaluated with the Disability Rating Index (DRI) and Pain Intensity Rating on a Visual analogue scale (VAS).

Back to work--evaluation of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme with emphasis on musculoskeletal disorders. A two-year follow-up.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the 2-year outcome of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme for working-age people, regarding sick leave and mental health.

Method: The test persons consisted of 40 women and 20 men (mean age 46.8 +/- SD 7.

Place of residence as a correlate of sickness absence in Sweden.

A postal questionnaire was sent to 1500 randomly selected men and women aged 20-64 years living in three sparsely populated municipalities in northern Sweden with high rates of sickness absence, and to 1000 corresponding inhabitants in the Swedish capital Stockholm with a low rate of sickness absence. The proportion of participants aged >or=45 years was higher and incomes were lower in municipalities with high rates of sickness absence. In multiple logistic regression analyses with age, education, income, somatic health, mental health, pain and place of residence as independent variables, significant correlates of sick listing in men were: age >or=45 years (odds ratio 5.

Pharmacotherapy for nocturia in the elderly patient.

Nocturia may be attributable to nocturnal polyuria (nocturnal urine overproduction), a diminished nocturnal bladder capacity or a combination of the two conditions.A disorder of the vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone) system with very low or undetectable levels of vasopressin at night, affecting some elderly people, may cause an increase in the nocturnal urine output, which in the most extreme cases accounts for 85% of the 24-hour diuresis. The increased urine output can be treated with desmopressin orally at bedtime, generally using low doses.

Obesity in elderly people with nocturia: cause or consequence?

Objective: To assess the relationship of nocturia and sleep to body weight.

Materials And Methods: A questionnaire survey among all (n = 10216) members of a pensioners'association in the Swedish counties of Västerbotten and Norrbotten.

Results: A total of 6103 evaluable questionnaires were received, of which 39.

A comparison of perceived health, attitudes to work, leisure time, and social welfare systems among people in a rural area in the north of Sweden and among people in the city of Stockholm.

A problem attracting considerable attention in Sweden today is the substantial regional differences in sickness absence. The aim of the study was to investigate and compare how people, from a random sample of the population in both a rural area in the north of Sweden and the Swedish capital Stockholm, perceive their health, and what their attitudes are to work, leisure time and social welfare systems. Results showed that a larger proportion of those answering in Stockholm considered their health status to be "very good", compared with those in the rural area (p<0.

Locus of control and regional differences in sickness absence in Sweden.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate if there are differences in locus of control (LOC), at a societal level, between two residential areas in Sweden with substantial differences in sickness absence.

Method: A postal questionnaire was sent to 1500 randomly selected men and women aged 20 - 64 years. Five hundred questionnaires were sent to people living in Stromsund (a sparsely populated municipality in northern Sweden with high rates of sickness absence) and 1000 questionnaires to people in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, which has a low rate of sickness absence.

Nocturia in relation to sleep, health, and medical treatment in the elderly.

Nocturia is a common condition in the elderly that profoundly influences general health and quality of life. It appears to predict a higher risk of death. One consequence of nocturia is sleep deterioration, with increased daytime sleepiness and loss of energy and activity.

Development of nocturia in relation to health, age and the menopause.

Objectives: To analyse the relationship between nocturia, age, the menopausal transition, parturition and hormone replacement treatment (HRT) in women.

Material And Methods: A questionnaire study was carried out in 3669 randomly selected women (out of 6000 invited) in the County of Jämtland, Sweden. Questions were asked about health, the occurrence of somatic diseases and symptoms, habits, health care and medication.

Nocturia, depression and antidepressant medication.

Objective: To assess the possible relationship between treatment with selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and the occurrence of nocturia.

Subjects And Methods: An unselected group of adult men and women, living in the city of Ostersund, Sweden, were sent a postal questionnaire containing questions on somatic and mental health, sleep, sleepiness and nocturia. For depression diagnostics, the Major Depression Inventory (MDI) was used.

Nocturia in relation to somatic health, mental health and pain in adult men and women.

Objective: To assess the relationship of nocturia to somatic health, mental health and bodily pain.

Subjects And Methods: A randomly selected group of men and women aged 20-64 years, living in three small municipalities in northern Sweden, or in the city of Ostersund or in Stockholm, were sent a postal questionnaire containing questions on somatic and mental health, satisfaction with life, pain, nocturnal voiding, work and sick-listing from work.

Results: Reports (from 1948 respondents) on poor somatic and mental health and on pain all increased in parallel with increasing frequency of nocturnal voids.

Oral dryness, nocturia and the menopause.

Objective: To analyse the relationship between oral dryness (OD), nocturia, the menopausal transition and some medical conditions and medications in women.

Methods: A questionnaire study was carried out in 3669 randomly selected women (out of 6000 invited) in the County of Jämtland, Sweden. Questions were asked about occurrence of somatic diseases and symptoms, nocturia, nocturnal thirst and drinking, and the use of drugs.

Nocturnal giddiness in relation to nocturia and other symptoms and to medication in the elderly.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relation of nocturia, somatic diseases, symptoms, and medication to nocturnal giddiness in a group of elderly men and women. A questionnaire survey was undertaken among 10,216 elderly subjects. The mean (+/-S.

[Nocturia and nocturnal polyuria in the elderly. Treatment essential for increasing patients' quality of life and decreasing the risk of injury].

Nocturia, i.e. nocturnal voiding episodes, is a symptom which can occur at all ages, but there is an age-related increase in both men and women.

Development of transurethral resections of the prostate in relation to nocturia in northern Sweden 1992-1997.

Objective: To assess the temporal trend in surgical treatment of benign hypertrophy of the prostate in Sweden, particularly the possible influence of nocturia on the probability to be treated by a transurethral resection operation of the prostate (TURP).

Materials And Methods: There were 2501 elderly men recruited by a questionnaire from a group of pensioners (n=4035; response rate 62%). Their age was 73.