A web-based intervention to promote applications for rehabilitation: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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• 作者：Katja Spanier ; Marco Streibelt ; Firat Ünalan ; Matthias Bethge
• 关键词：Rehabilitation ; Need for rehabilitation ; Web ; based information ; Health action process approach ; Work ability index
• 刊名：Trials
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：570 KB
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine general; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1745-6215

文摘

Background The German welfare system follows the principle “rehabilitation rather than pension,” but more than the half of all disability pensioners did not utilize medical rehabilitation before their early retirement. A major barrier is the application procedure. Lack of information about the opportunity to utilize rehabilitation services restricts the chance to improve work ability and to prevent health-related early retirement by rehabilitation programs. The establishment of new access paths to medical rehabilitation services was, therefore, identified as a major challenge for rehabilitation research in a recent expertise. Thus, a web-based information guide was developed to support the application for a medical rehabilitation program.