Table 2 Codebook of questionnaire factors and items, blue: factors from the focus group (16), white: factors from the questionnaire (21)
Work-related factors | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Nr | Factor | Item | # focus groups |
1 | Autonomy | Are patients able to choose their own tasks, tempo, order in which they perform tasks? | 1 |
2 | Learning and development opportunities | Do patients feel they have the opportunity to develop themselves at work, that they are contributing to a useful entity? | 5 |
3 | Social support by management | Do patients feel their management has sympathy for their situation? | 5 |
4 | Social support by colleagues | Do patients feel their colleagues have sympathy for their situation? | 5 |
5 | Physical workload | Do patients perceive their job as physically demanding? (e.g. lifting, …) | 3 |
6 | Workload | How do patients perceive the workload? (e.g. time-pressure, number of tasks, …) | 3 |
7 | Terms of employment | How satisfied are the patients with their terms of employment (e.g. salary, …) | 1 |
8 | Emotional burden | Do patients perceive their jobs as emotionally demanding? | 0 |
9 | Turnover intention profession | Have patients been considering changing jobs? / | 1 |
10 | Job satisfaction | Do patients feel good at work? | 4 |
11 | Work expectations | Do patients think they will have to catch up a lot of work when they return to their job? | 2 |
1 | Active support in return-to-work process | Is there any follow-up and support by an assigned person (employer, disability manager, HR, …) to make sure patients are able to take up tasks gradually? | 4 |
2 | Employers attitude towards return to work | Do patients feel the employer is willing to adjust the work floor to their needs? | 2 |
3 | Mobility | Is it possible for the patient to come to work? | 3 |
4 | Adaptive work environment | Are necessary adaptations in working hours, work place adaptations, adapted tasks, possible on the workfloor according to the patient? | 5 |
Stressful life-event factors | |||
Nr | Factor | Question | # focus groups |
12 | Stressful life events | Do patients perceive stressful life events in their private life? (e.g. difficulties in the household) | 4 |
5 | Practical issues at home | Do patients perceive issues doing practical tasks at home? | 3 |
6 | Financial incentives | Do patients have financial incentives to go back to work (e.g. does the benefit not suffice to support their household?) | 4 |
7 | Environment and return to work | How does the environment of the patient feel about the patient returning to work? | 2 |
Functioning factors | |||
Nr | Factor | Question | # focus groups |
13 | Health perception patient | How do patients perceive their own health in general? | 5 |
14 | Psychological distress | Do patients experience psychological distress? (e.g. depressing thoughts, …) | 5 |
15 | Pain perception | How do patients perceive their pain? | 5 |
16 | Work-health interference perception | Do patients think that returning to work will worsen their condition? | 2 |
17 | Return-to-work needs | Do patients think they will be able to return to their previous job, or are adaptations or a job change necessary? | 4 |
18 | Return-to-work expectations | Do patients think they will be able to resume their previous job within 4 weeks? | 3 |
19 | Recovery expectations | Do patients perceive the treatment as effective for curing their illness? | 3 |
8 | Mental Fatigue | Do patients perceive mental fatigue? | 4 |
9 | Medication use | Do patients use medication and does this have a negative influence on their functioning? | 3 |
10 | Status support process | Do patient have the feeling of being followed up? (e.g. do they have a diagnosis? Have they seen an occupational health physician?) | 5 |
11 | Illness recognition | How does the patient think others perceive their illness? | 5 |
12 | Willing to return to work | Are patients motivated to return to work? | 5 |
13 | Sustainable return to work | Do patients think that sustainable return to work is possible (e.g. in case of chronic illnesses, unpredictability of the illness) | 2 |
14 | Illness-life impact | How do patients feel the illness has an impact on their normal functioning? | 2 |
Person-related factors | |||
Nr | Factor | Question | # focus groups |
20 | Fear of colleagues’ expectations | Are patients afraid about what colleagues think about their absence? | 4 |
21 | Perfectionism | Do patients have perfectionist characteristics? | 2 |
Environmental factors | |||
Nr | Factor | Question | # focus groups |
15 | Regulations | Do patients know about the regulations involved in returning to work? | 3 |
16 | Communication different stakeholders | Is there, according to the patients, enough communication between the various stakeholders in their return-to-work process (e.g. communication between different physicians)? | 2 |