Patients' return-to-work expectancy relates to their beliefs about their physician's opinion regarding return to work volition and ability.

Conclusion: The results indicate that patients' beliefs regarding their physician's opinion about their ability and volition for RTW influence their own RTW expectancy. Rehabilitation might be facilitated if health care professionals address and affirm patients' ability and volition for RTW, regardless of patients' pain characteristics or if the total duration of their sick leave is <10 years. As other studies have found that RTW expectancy is one of the strongest predictors for actual RTW, future research should test the effect of beliefs about physicians' opinions on actual RTW rates. PMID: 30697062 [PubMed]
Source: Pain Physician - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: J Pain Res Source Type: research