Vocational Rehabilitation for the Return to Work of Breast Cancer Patients: a Feasibility Study

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Multidisciplinary vocational rehabilitation intervention: * Information aims to provide tailored information concerning the work law protection (this support is already provided for all patients, regardless the type of disease, and also for citizens); * Occupational therapy aims to facilitate the reintegration in the previous workplace through the development of a rehabilitation intervention to overcome work difficulties in agreement with employee, employer and occupational physician, * Social support aims to find new job opportunities (for those who have lost the employment due to the disease) through the giving of support in job search, curriculum preparation, skill analysis, professional retraining and education.

Study summary

In Italy, 50% of new breast cancer (BC) diagnosis occur in female of working age. Although return to work (RTW) is strongly desired by BC patients, cancer survivors are more likely to be unemployed than healthy individuals. Moreover, work difficulties may hindrance this process. Since 2018, the investigators have planned a local social-healthcare pathway which provides a multidisciplinary vocational rehabilitation intervention with the aim to help cancer survivors in their RTW process. To date, the feasibility of the multidisciplinary vocational rehabilitation interventions has not been verified for BC patients.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• interception — 12 months
  rate of patients who has been proposed to participate to the feasibility study
• acceptation — 12 months
  rate of patients (who has been proposed to participate to the feasibility study) who accept to participate
• adherence — 12 months
  rate of patients who participate in the scheduled meeting and in the multidisciplinary intervention proposed; rate of patients who agree to receive the intervention at the workplace (for those eligible)
• lost to follow-up — 12 months
  rate of patients who will not attend the scheduled meeting (drop-out rate set ≤ 20%)
• satisfaction rate — 12 months
  rate of patients who perceive the modules of the multidisciplinary intervention as supportive for their RTW or work continuation
• RTW/work continuation — 12 months
  rate of patients who participate in the study and who will RTW or continued to work

Trial sites (1)

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