Return to Work and Employment Income After Stroke
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description: Background: Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Many people after stroke experience functional limitations and have difficulty returning to work. Returning to work after stroke is important for financial reasons, but also for mental health and life satisfaction. Health professionals may assume that many stroke rehabilitation patients do not expect to return to work and decide to retire. This may be a false assumption. Knowing the proportion of stroke rehabilitation patients who intend to return to work can help rehabilitation providers to better understand their patients' plans and to initiate discussion about return to work needs. Furthermore, healthcare and social service providers have limited information regarding the proportion of stroke survivors who do return to work. Estimates of return to work poststroke widely vary in the literature, and it is not clear how operational definitions have affected these estimates. Finally, Ontario healthcare and social service providers and planners could benefit from population-based estimates of return to work and poststroke employment income. Purpose and Objectives: The overall purpose of my thesis research was to investigate return to work after stroke. The specific objectives were to: 1) estimate the proportion of stroke rehabilitation inpatients intending to return to work; 2) examine operational definitions of return to work, and more precisely estimate the proportion of stroke survivors returning to work; and 3) determine the relative effects of stroke on the probability of reporting employment income over 3 years, and estimate the changes in annual employment income attributable to stroke. Methods: To meet these objectives, I conducted three studies: 1) a cross-sectional study using hospital data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information National Rehabilitation Reporting System; 2) a systematic review and meta-analysis; and 3) a retrospective cohort study using hospital data from the Canadian …
abstract: Background: Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Many people after stroke experience functional limitations and have difficulty returning to work. Returning to work after stroke is important for financial reasons, but also for mental health and life satisfaction. Health professionals may assume that many stroke rehabilitation patients do not expect to return to work and decide to retire. This may be a false assumption. Knowing the proportion of stroke rehabilitation patients who intend to return to work can help rehabilitation providers to better understand their patients' plans and to initiate discussion about return to work needs. Furthermore, healthcare and social service providers have limited information regarding the proportion of stroke survivors who do return to work. Estimates of return to work poststroke widely vary in the literature, and it is not clear how operational definitions have affected these estimates. Finally, Ontario healthcare and social service providers and planners could benefit from population-based estimates of return to work and poststroke employment income. Purpose and Objectives: The overall purpose of my thesis research was to investigate return to work after stroke. The specific objectives were to: 1) estimate the proportion of stroke rehabilitation inpatients intending to return to work; 2) examine operational definitions of return to work, and more precisely estimate the proportion of stroke survivors returning to work; and 3) determine the relative effects of stroke on the probability of reporting employment income over 3 years, and estimate the changes in annual employment income attributable to stroke. Methods: To meet these objectives, I conducted three studies: 1) a cross-sectional study using hospital data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information National Rehabilitation Reporting System; 2) a systematic review and meta-analysis; and 3) a retrospective cohort study using hospital data from the Canadian …
author: Duong, Patrick
language: en
keywords: Stroke, Return to work, Rehabilitation, Employment, Income, Social support
date published: 2024-12-10T17:16:34Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T03:39:40Z
provider: University of Ottawa
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/49963

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property ID: DOI
value: 10.20381/ruor-30767