Efficacy of interdisciplinary health programme in the prevention of work-related physical complaints

INTERVENTION: Participants of a client‐centred interdisciplinary primary prevention programme are compared to controls only receving activities of the usual primary prevention policy in the hospital. The interdisciplinary programme consists of 11 group sessions of one hour and 3 individual 1‐hour sessions (spread over 3 months). Throughout the programme, participants are informed and work on topics concerning physical activity, diet, ergonomics and coping. CONDITION: Work‐related physical complaints ; Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning PRIMARY OUTCOME: At baseline, 3 months post‐baseline, 6 months post‐baseline and 12 months post‐baseline:; 1. Rate of absenteeism; 2. 36‐item Short Form Health Survey (SF‐36): quality of life SECONDARY OUTCOME: At baseline, post‐intervention, 3 months post‐baseline and 12 months post‐baseline:; 1. Eurofit (physical fitness test); 2. Baecke (questionnaire physical activity in daily life); 3. Work APGAR test: job satisfaction; 4. Utrecht Coping List (UCL): coping INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists (18 ‐ 65 years, either sex) working with patients in a general hospital 2. During the latest 12 months: maximum 4 weeks of absenteeism due to work‐related physical complaints