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KMID : 1141220120030020117
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Safety and Health at Work
2012 Volume.3 No. 2 p.117 ~ p.122
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Return to Work after an Acute Coronary Syndrome: Patients’ Perspective
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Slebus Frans G.
Jorstad Harald T.
Peters Ron J. G.
Kuijer P. Paul F. M.
Willems J. H. B. M.
Sluiter Judith K.
Frings Dresen Monique H. W.
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Abstract
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Objectives: To describe the time perspective of return to work and the factors that facilitate and hinder return to work in a group of survivors of acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
Methods: Retrospective semi-structured telephone survey 2 to 3 years after hospitalization with 84 employed Dutch ACS-patients from one academic medical hospital.
Results: Fifty-eight percent of patients returned to work within 3 months, whereas at least 88% returned to work once within 2 years. Two years after hospitalization, 12% of ACS patients had not returned to work at all, and 24% were working, but not at pre-ACS levels. For all ACS-patients, the most mentioned categories of facilitating factors to return to work were having no complaints and not having signs or symptoms of heart disease. Physical incapacity, co-morbidity, and mental incapacity were the top 3 categories of hindering factors against returning to work.
Conclusion: Within 2 years, 36% of the patients had not returned to work at their pre-ACS levels. Disease factors, functional capacity, environmental factors, and personal factors were listed as affecting subjects’ work ability level.
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KEYWORD
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Acute coronary syndrome, Return to work, Facilitating, Hindering factors
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