What are the most important factors for work participation in the young disabled? An expert view

Abstract

Purpose: To define the most important factors for the work participation of the young disabled according to experts. Method: A Delphi study was conducted with internet questionnaires. Health-related, personal and environmental factors known from literature were presented to insurance physicians and labour experts. The experts assessed whether a factor was important for the work participation of the young disabled. New factors added by the experts in the first round were assessed in the second round. Factors assessed as important by at least 80% of the experts were input for the last round, in which the experts chose the ten most important factors. Results: Participation included 156 experts in the first round and 91 experts in the last round. They selected 44 of 92 factors as important. Severity of limitations, type of limitations and motivation were placed by more than 55% of the experts on their top-ten list to be assessed in a plan to help the young disabled participate in work. Conclusion: Severity and type of limitations and motivation are considered to be the most important factors for the work participation of the young disabled and should be included in a participation plan.Implications for RehabilitationAs young disabled experience barriers when entering the labour market, knowledge of influencing factors is necessary to help them successfully participate in work.According to experts the disease-related severity and type of limitations and the personal factor motivation are the most important factors to know to help these young disabled to participate in work.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 15 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.