Integrated Clinical-Occupational Management for Workers With Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases
Work participation and job retention are common concerns for people living with IBD. This study will measure how IBD affects work ability, fatigue, mental health, and return-to-work barriers, and aims to create integrated clinical-occupational tools to support employment.
Working-age people with IBD, occupational physicians, gastroenterology clinicians, rehabilitation specialists, employers, and researchers on work outcomes in chronic disease.
What To Know
What To Know This is a registered prospective multicenter observational study (MCNT@WORK) enrolling working-age adults with inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) and a comparator group with breast cancer.
Participants will be assessed at baseline and after 12 months using integrated clinical, psychological, functional, and occupational measures to track work ability, absenteeism, presenteeism, quality of life, fatigue, stress, anxiety, and depression.
The study aims to identify clinical, psychosocial, and workplace factors linked to reduced work ability or barriers to return to work, and to develop an integrated clinical–occupational care pathway and practical tools (evaluation forms, checklists, and recommendations) to support job retention and safe return to work.
Who Should Pay Attention Working-age adults with IBD (including those at any disease stage or treatment), occupational medicine clinicians, gastroenterologists, rehabilitation specialists, employers, and researchers interested in work outcomes and interventions for chronic disease.
Keep In Mind This is an observational study protocol/registry entry (ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING) focused on measuring associations and developing care pathways; it does not report results. Findings will describe changes over 12 months and factors associated with work outcomes but will not by itself establish causation or test specific interventions.
Registry entry / trial record describing study design and planned assessments. No results reported; the study will follow participants for 12 months to identify factors linked to work ability and to inform care pathways.
