Employment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis-a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Kirkeskov, K Bray - BMC rheumatology, 2023 - Springer
Background Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have difficulties maintaining employment
due to the impact of the disease on their work ability. This review aims to investigate the …

Work participation and arthritis: a systematic overview of challenges, adaptations and opportunities for interventions

JL Hoving, MCB van Zwieten, M van der Meer… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Objective. Understanding the factors that play a role in maintaining people with inflammatory
arthritis in the workforce may aid the design of interventions to support work participation …

Problems faced at work due to inflammatory arthritis: new insights gained from understanding patients' perspective

D Lacaille, MA White, CL Backman… - Arthritis Care & …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Objective A qualitative study was conducted to better understand patients' perspective on
their experience at work in relation to their inflammatory arthritis (IA). Objectives were to …

Factors influencing return to work experienced by people with acquired brain injury: a qualitative research study

JM van Velzen, CAM van Bennekom… - Disability and …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose. To describe the factors experienced by adults with moderate-to-severe acquired
brain injury (ABI) as either limiting or facilitating during the process of return to work (RTW) in …

Missed opportunities in the treatment of elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis

BJ Radovits, J Fransen, A Eijsbouts… - …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Objective. To investigate whether there is a difference in waiting time between indication
and start of anti-TNF-α therapy in younger and older RA patients. Methods. The study was …

Workers with a chronic disease and work disability

I Varekamp, FJH Van Dijk, LE Kroll - 2013 - edoc.rki.de
Die Prävalenz chronischer Erkrankungen in der Altersgruppe der 18-bis 65-Jährigen ist
hoch. Am häufigsten treten kardiometabolische Störungen und muskuloskeletale …

Facilitating job retention for chronically ill employees: perspectives of line managers and human resource managers

JA Haafkens, H Kopnina, MGM Meerman… - BMC health services …, 2011 - Springer
Background Chronic diseases are a leading contributor to work disability and job loss in
Europe. Recent EU policies aim to improve job retention among chronically ill employees …

Facilitating empowerment in employees with chronic disease: qualitative analysis of the process of change

I Varekamp, A Heutink, S Landman… - Journal of occupational …, 2009 - Springer
Introduction In the field of healthcare, empowering patients who have a chronic disease is
defined as increasing their knowledge and skills, in order to enable them to define their …

The relationship of work, self-care, and quality of life in a sample of older working adults with cardiovascular disease

VV Dickson, A Howe, J Deal, MM McCarthy - Heart & Lung, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The study objective was to describe the self-care behaviors of adherence to
medication, diet, exercise, and symptom monitoring of older workers with cardiovascular …

The work of workplace disclosure: invisible chronic conditions and opportunities for design

K Ganesh, A Lazar - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-computer …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Health disclosure at work is complicated for people with invisible chronic conditions. Due to
the lack of visible symptoms, invisible conditions affect the work life of people in ways that …