Affiliations: Department of Work and Social Rehabilitation, The
Guangdong Provincial Work Injury Rehabilitation Center, Guangzhou, China
Note: [] Address for correspondence: Xun Wen Lu, The Guangdong Provincial
Work Injury Rehabilitation Center, Wenquan Eastern Road 105, Wenquan Town,
Conghua, Guangzhou, China. Tel.: +86 20 87830238; Fax: +86 20 87830338; E-mail:
luxunwen@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract: The present study aims to explore the case management model by using
problem solving skills in assisting workers with injuries in returning to work.
A total of five workers with injuries were enrolled and there were four stages
during the whole case management process including a medical rehabilitation
stage (stage I), a compensation stage (stage II), a return to work stage (stage
III) and a follow-up stage (stage IV) respectively. Case managers provided
services by using problem solving skills to tackle the problems which workers
with injuries may encounter during all four stages. Outcome measurement showed
one case return to the same company same job, two returns to different
companies and different jobs, the others have self employed work. This study
suggested that case management using the problem solving skills of occupational
rehabilitation was beneficial to workers with injuries on return to work.
Keywords: Occupational rehabilitation, work injury, case management, problem solving
