TY  - JOUR
A1  - Muschalla, Beate
T1  - Different work capacity impairments in patients with different work-anxieties
JF  - International archives of occupational and environmental health
N2  - Purpose Persons with work-anxieties are especially endangered for work capacity impairment and sick leave. Work capacity impairment is not directly due to symptoms but due to illness-related capacity disorders. Work capacity impairments can be described on different dimensions (e.g., social interaction, decision making and judgment, endurance, mobility). Understanding the type of work capacity impairment is important for reintegration interventions. This is the first study to investigate work capacity impairment in risk patients with different work-anxieties. Results Patients with different work-anxieties were impaired in different capacity dimensions: Work-related social anxiety went along with clinically relevant impairment in capacity of assertiveness (M = 2.40), anxiety of insufficiency went along with impaired capacity of endurance (M = 2.20), and work-related generalized worrying was accompanied by impairment in the capacity for decision making (M = 1.82). Specific capacity impairment dimensions were related to sick leave duration, while a global work ability prognosis was not. Conclusions The capacity approach is useful to describe work impairment more precisely and beyond symptoms. On this basis, reintegration-focusing interventions such as capacity training (e.g., social interaction training) or work adjustment (e.g., reducing exposure with interactional work tasks) can be initiated.
KW  - Work ability
KW  - Work-anxiety
KW  - Sick leave
KW  - Impairment
KW  - Mental disorders
KW  - ICF
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-015-1099-x
SN  - 0340-0131
SN  - 1432-1246
VL  - 89
SP  - 609
EP  - 619
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -