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Researchers from University of Amsterdam report on findings in chronic disease

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, March 27th, 2009

"Persons with a chronic disease are less often employed than healthy persons. If employed, many of them experience problems at work," investigators in Netherlands report.

"Therefore, we developed a training programme aimed at job retention. The objective of this paper is to describe this intervention and to present the design of a study to evaluate its effectiveness. Development and description of intervention: A systematic review, a needs assessment and discussions with Dutch experts led to a pilot group training, tested in a pilot study. The evaluation resulted in the development of a seven-session group training combined with three individual counselling sessions....

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