System-level efforts to address pain-related workplace challenges.

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• Personal Author:
  Linton SJ ; Main CJ ; Nicholas MK ; Shaw WS
• Description:
  Painful musculoskeletal disorders represent an enormous burden at the individual, organizational, and societal levels. In the workplace context, disabling effects of pain are influenced by a wide range of psychosocial factors, including pain beliefs, psychological distress, social support, self-efficacy, and perceptions of organizational support. Moreover, a patient's ability to return to work (RTW) or maintain employment can be affected by multiple overlapping systems outside of the clinic. Improving occupational outcomes for patients with pain may require that we intervene with these external systems to improve treatment choices, coping, functional and social support, organizational communication, accommodation, and reinforcement. This topical review provides a summary of research and rationale supporting system-level interventions to reduce the lifestyle impacts of pain, with a focus on work disability prevention. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mental Health Musculoskeletal Diseases Nervous System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Total Worker Health; TWH; Musculoskeletal disorders; MSD; Psychosocial factors; Work organization; Intervention; Mental health
• ISSN:
  0304-3959
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  163
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065470
• Citation:
  Pain 2022 Aug; 163(8):1425-1431
• Contact Point Address:
  William S. Shaw, Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT 06030, United States
• Email:
  wshaw@uchc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20210901
• Source Full Name:
  Pain
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/249448/cdc_249448_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 237.63 KB ]