Sickness absentees' experiences of encounters with professionals within healthcare and social insurance

There is little knowledge on factors that influence return to work among long-term sickness absentees.

So far, mainly the effect of different rehabilitation measures have been studied, however, not the effect of the encounters with professionals. Some results indicate that such encounters might be of importance why we study this in different projects.

The aim is to get knowledge on how long-term sickness absentees experience their encounters with professionals and the possible influence of this for return to work.