Joint Coordination to Facilitate the Transition From Sick Leave to Employment

Joint Coordination (GESAM) - Collaboration Project to Facilitate the Transition From Sick Leave to Employment

GESAM is a randomized controlled intervention study that addressed women and men on long-term sick leave in Uppsala County. Participants which are on sick leave due to mental illness and/or pain and were expected to reach the time limit within the in health insurance will be offered to participate in an intervention.

Those how give informed consent will be randomly assigned one of the following groups: 1) informing and motivating intervention with insurance officer 2) control group. The main purpose of the study is to facilitate the return to work (preventing a return to the public health insurance) during the project period.

Inclusion Criteria:

• On sick leave
• Risk of losing sick leave compensation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder type I, severe social dysfunction/personality disorder)
• Cancer disease