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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

職業災害復健研究一探討影響職災殘障勞工重返工作之因素

Abstract

Work-related injuries will cause injured worker's role dysfunction, and result in family economic crisis and national productivity loss. The purposes of this research are to investigate the factors affecting ”return to work” after work-related injuries in order to establish the work hardening program in Taiwan R.O.C. in the future.The subjects of mailed survey were 3752 workers who collected occupational disability compensation between January 1，1991 and December31, 1993.The mail returning rate from the injured workers was 25.3%,913 participants completed the ”Injured Worker's Physical and Psychosocial Adaptation Questionnaire”. The SPSS for WINDOWS was used to describe and analyze the data. The results from the mailed participants show that the injured workers who using adapted devices,receiving medical rehabilitation services,feeling poor physical ability, not hand or upper extremity injured，being older than 53 years old, having more severe disabled level and not having family and friends support and encouragement are more difficult to return to work after injuries. Furthermore,after using stepwise forward logistic regression analysis, it was found that only the factors of the injured workers' age, physical ability, disabled level, disabled area and family support were the significant predictive indicators affecting rate of retum-to-work.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

67

Last Page

78

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