| A growing number of employees have a chronic condition. Some of them quit the labour market prematurely. Vocational rehabilitation interventions might have helped them to stay at work. Firstly, this project concerns the development and evaluation of a training for people with chronic diseases which helps them to solve practical and psychosocial problems which they encounter at work and which are related to their chronic condition. The project is aimed at job retention and reduction of sickness absence while both quality of work and quality of life are sustained or improved. Participants involve employees with a chronic somatic disease who experience problems at work and are motivated to actively participate in the programme. They will be randomly allocated to an intervention or a control group. Employees in the intervention group will participate in a group training programme and the employees in the control group will receive care as usual. |
