Clinical trial NCT02304601: Development and Testing of a Generic Screening for Use in Application Process of Medical Rehabilitation Services
Official title: Entwicklung Und Testung Eines Generischen Screenings für Die Vorabschätzung Von Fallgruppen im Antragsverfahren
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Medical Rehabilitation
Lead sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Deutsche Rentenversicherung
First posted: 2014-12-02
Enrollment: 2736
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Members of the German Federal Pension Insurance before their medical rehabilitation

Brief summary: The primary objective of this research is the development and testing of a brief cross-indication instrument (screening) for use in the approval process of medical rehabilitation services. In addition to the empirical foundation, this generic instrument should have a high level of acceptance of both applicants and payers of rehabilitation services. Furthermore, an everyday and economic use for the routine application process for medical rehabilitation services at the German statutory pension insurance scheme should be provided. In the first study phase, a long instrument was tested with a sample of rehabilitees that received approval of medical rehabilitation services. This assessment including the measurement of rehabilitation-related somatic, psychological and social impairments was first tested for its psychometric properties and then reduced to a short instrument (screening) using quantitative methods. In the second study phase, the then-existing screening will be part of the application documents for medical rehabilitation services to assess its management properties and practicability in everyday use of the German statutory pension insurance scheme.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Member of German Federal Pension Insurance
* Approval of a medical rehabilitation according to § 15 SGB VI

Exclusion Criteria:

* Returning questionnaire after beginning of medical rehabilitation

Primary outcomes:
measure: return-to-work
timeFrame: up to 9 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: therapies during rehabilitation
timeFrame: up to 9 months
measure: socio-medical prognosis
timeFrame: up to 9 months
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References:
citation: Streibelt M, Brunger M. [How many work-related therapeutic services do patients with severe restrictions of work ability receive? Analysis of a representative rehabilitation sample across indications]. Rehabilitation (Stuttg). 2014 Dec;53(6):369-75. doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1375643. German.
citation: Brunger M, Spyra K. Prevalence of comorbid depressive symptoms in rehabilitation: A cross-indication, nationwide observational study. J Rehabil Med. 2016 Nov 11;48(10):903-908. doi: 10.2340/16501977-2156.
citation: Brunger M, Streibelt M, Schmidt C, Spyra K. [Psychometric Testing of a Generic Assessment Tool for the Identification of Biopsychosocial Impairments in Persons with an Approval for Medical Rehabilitation]. Rehabilitation (Stuttg). 2016 Jun;55(3):175-81. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-104668. Epub 2016 Jun 10. German.