title: Between unemployment and employment: experience of unemployed long-term pain sufferers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study explored and analysed how patients experienced possibilities for, and barriers to, work return after participation in a multi-professional pain-rehabilitation program followed by a coached work-training program (CWT).
  
  
  METHODS
  Eleven informants (8 women/3 men) with long-term musculoskeletal pain who had participated in the CWT program for 4-21 months (mean=11) comprised the study.
  
  
  METHODS
  A qualitative emergent design was used. Data collected with interviews were analysed using the constant comparison method of grounded theory. Triangulation in researchers were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analyses of the interviews resulted in the development of a three-category theoretical model, which was named "a way back to work". The main category "Experience of a way back to work" consisted of the informants' experience during the process between unemployment and employment. The category "Support" describes the help the informants received from various actors, and the category "Negative response" describes negative responses from the actors involved, which was an important barrier in the process between unemployment and employment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Professional individualised support, participants feeling involved in their rehabilitation process, coaching at real workplaces and multi-professional team including health care personnel, were valuable during the process towards work.
authors.affiliation: The Rehabilitation Medicine University Clinic, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Glavare
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Löfgren
authors.forename: Marie-Louise
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Schult
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010146:Pain / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016730:Program Development; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods*; D062707:Return to Work; D018582:Sick Leave / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013997:Time Factors; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017132:Workplace; D055815:Young Adult