TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunities and challenges around adapting supported employment interventions for people with chronic low back pain
T2 - modified nominal group technique
AU - Froud, Robert
AU - Amundsen, Pal Andre
AU - Bartys, Serena
AU - Battie, Michele
AU - Burton, Kim
AU - Foster, Nadine E.
AU - Johnsen, Tone Langjordet
AU - Pincus, Tamar
AU - Reneman, Michiel F.
AU - Smeets, Rob J. E. M.
AU - Sveinsdottir, Vigdis
AU - Wynne-Jones, Gwenllian
AU - Underwood, Martin
PY - 2021/9/11
Y1 - 2021/9/11
N2 - Purpose: To identify and rank opportunities and challenges around adapting supported employment interventions for people with chronic low back pain (LBP). Methods: Delegates from an international back and neck research forum were invited to join an expert panel. A modified nominal group technique (NGT) was used with four stages: silent generation, round robin, clarification, and ranking. Ranked items were reported back and ratified by the panel. Results: Nine experienced researchers working in the fields related to LBP and disability joined the panel. Forty-eight items were generated and grouped into 12 categories of opportunities/challenges. Categories ranked most important related respectively to policy and legislation, ensuring operational integration across different systems, funding interventions, and managing attitudes towards work and health, workplace flexibility, availability of "good" work for this client group, dissonance between client and system aims, timing of interventions, and intervention development. Conclusions: An expert panel believes the most important opportunities/challenges around adapting supporting employment interventions for people with chronic LBP are facilitating integration/communication between systems and institutions providing intervention components, optimising research outputs for informing policy needs, and encouraging discussion around funding mechanisms for research and interventions. Addressing these factors may help improve the quality and impact of future interventions.
AB - Purpose: To identify and rank opportunities and challenges around adapting supported employment interventions for people with chronic low back pain (LBP). Methods: Delegates from an international back and neck research forum were invited to join an expert panel. A modified nominal group technique (NGT) was used with four stages: silent generation, round robin, clarification, and ranking. Ranked items were reported back and ratified by the panel. Results: Nine experienced researchers working in the fields related to LBP and disability joined the panel. Forty-eight items were generated and grouped into 12 categories of opportunities/challenges. Categories ranked most important related respectively to policy and legislation, ensuring operational integration across different systems, funding interventions, and managing attitudes towards work and health, workplace flexibility, availability of "good" work for this client group, dissonance between client and system aims, timing of interventions, and intervention development. Conclusions: An expert panel believes the most important opportunities/challenges around adapting supporting employment interventions for people with chronic LBP are facilitating integration/communication between systems and institutions providing intervention components, optimising research outputs for informing policy needs, and encouraging discussion around funding mechanisms for research and interventions. Addressing these factors may help improve the quality and impact of future interventions.
KW - Chronic low back pain
KW - supported employment interventions
KW - Individualised Placement and Support (IPS)
KW - health policy
KW - nominal group technique
KW - INDIVIDUAL PLACEMENT
KW - GUIDELINES
KW - PRIORITIES
KW - IPS
U2 - 10.1080/09638288.2020.1716863
DO - 10.1080/09638288.2020.1716863
M3 - Article
C2 - 32008399
VL - 43
SP - 2750
EP - 2757
JO - Disability and Rehabilitation
JF - Disability and Rehabilitation
SN - 0963-8288
IS - 19
ER -