L18 - Return to Work SA

Question 1

If someone gets injured at work and is off work for 70 days, what is the chance that they will ever return to work?

Answer 1

35%

Question 2

What impact does work absense have on physical and mental health?

Answer 2

causes, contributes and accentuates negative physical and mental health impacts and increases mortality rates

Question 3

What impact does parents work absence have on children?

Answer 3

Question 4

What are the 4 health benefits of work?

Answer 4

Physical Activity

Community and Social Contact

Structure

Financial Security

Question 5

What are the 3 key elements of the return to work SA act (2014) that is necessary to get people back to work after injury?

Answer 5

Early Intervention

Face-to-face support

Individual support and service

Question 6

What are the two types of work injuries

How are these defined as a work injury?

Answer 6

Physical Injuries

Psychiatric Injuries

Employment must be a significant contributing cause to the injury

Question 7

What are the entitlement differences for non-seriously injured workers and seriously injured workers

Answer 7

Question 8

What type of treatments are best used to manage work related injury clinically?

Answer 8

Biopsychosocial approach, evidence based treatments

Question 9

What are the 5 factors in the flags model that influence whether someone will be able to get back to work?

Answer 9

Question 10

What are the 6 factors that are present at the acute stage of injury that predict compensation and returning to work outcomes?

Answer 10

Question 11

What are 4 ways we can encourage early return to work?

Answer 11

Question 12

When trying to get people to return to work, what type of strategies are the best to promote?

Answer 12

active strategies

actively engage and help the individual

Question 13

Explain the pain cycle

Answer 13

Question 14

What are the 4 factors that are important for supporting self management

Answer 14

Sleep

Nutrition and Lifestyle

Mental Wellbeing

Movement

Question 15

For psychologists, what is involved in a treatment management plan for returning to work?

Answer 15

Question 16

What are the 4 return to work service providers?

Answer 16

Psychologist

Mediator

Rehabilitation Counsellor

Employment Consultant

Question 17

What are the stats for risk of abuse and risk of dependence for prescription opioids?

What % of people experience an adverse effect after taking opiods for over 3 months?

Answer 17

Abuse: 1 in 5

Dependence: 1 in 10

80% of people who take opioids for three or more months experience an adverse effect