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Using intervention mapping to develop evidence-based toolkits that provide mental wellbeing support to workers and their managers whilst on long-term sick leave and following return-to-work
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Varela-Mato, Veronica, Blake, Holly, Yarker, Joanna, Godfree, Kate, Daly, Guy, Hassard, Juliet, Meyer, Caroline, Kershaw, Charlotte, Marwaha, Steven, Newman, Kristina, Russell, Sean, Thomson, Louise and Munir, Fehmidah (2023) Using intervention mapping to develop evidence-based toolkits that provide mental wellbeing support to workers and their managers whilst on long-term sick leave and following return-to-work. BMC Health Services Research . doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2539229/v1 (In Press)
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2539229/v1
Abstract
Background
Managing long-term sickness absence is challenging in countries where employers and managers have the main responsibility to provide return to work support, particularly for workers with poor mental health. Whilst long-term sick leave and return to work frameworks and guidance exist for employers, there are currently no structured return to work protocols for employers or for their workers encompassing best practice strategies to support a positive and timely return to work outcome.
Purpose
To utilise the intervention mapping (IM) protocol as a framework to develop return to work toolkits that are underpinned by relevant behaviour change theory targeting mental health to promote a positive return to work experience for workers on long-term sick leave.
Methods
This paper provides a worked example of intervention mapping (IM) to develop an intervention through a six-step process to combine theory and evidence in the development of two toolkits – one designed for managers and one to be used by workers on long-term sick leave. As part of this process, collaborative planning techniques were used to develop the intervention. A planning group was set up, through which researchers would work alongside employer, worker, and mental health professional representatives to develop the toolkits. Additionally, feedback on the toolkits were sought from the target populations of workers and managers and from wider employer stakeholders (e.g., human resource specialists). The implementation and evaluation of the toolkits as a workplace intervention were also planned.
Results
Two toolkits were designed following the six steps of intervention mapping. Feedback from the planning group (n = 5; psychologist, psychiatrist, person with previous experience of poor mental health, employer and charity worker) and participants (n = 14; employers = 3, wellbeing director = 1; human resources = 2, managers = 2, employees with previous experience of poor mental health = 5) target populations indicated that the toolkits were acceptable and much needed.
Conclusion
Using IM allowed the development of an evidence-based practical intervention, whilst incorporating the views of all the impacted stakeholder groups. The feasibility and acceptability of the toolkits and their supporting intervention components, implementation process and methods of assessment will be evaluated in a feasibility pilot randomised controlled trial.
Item Type: | Submitted Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Vocational rehabilitation, Sick leave , Absenteeism (Labor) , Mental health , Employees -- Mental health | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BMC Health Services Research | |||||||||
Publisher: | Biomed central | |||||||||
ISSN: | 1472-6963 | |||||||||
Book Title: | Using intervention mapping to develop evidence-based toolkits that provide mental wellbeing support to workers and their managers whilst on long-term sick leave and following return-to-work | |||||||||
Official Date: | 3 April 2023 | |||||||||
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DOI: | 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2539229/v1 | |||||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 June 2023 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 June 2023 | |||||||||
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