title: Decrease social inequalities return-to-work: development and design of a randomised controlled trial among women with breast cancer.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Despite the improvement in the care management, women cancer patients who are still in employment find themselves for the most part obliged to stop working while they are having treatment. Their return-to-work probability is impacted by numerous psychosocial factors. The objective is to describe the development and the content of an intervention aimed to facilitate the return to work of female breast cancer patients and in particular the women in the most precarious situations through early active individualised psychosocial support (APAPI).
  
  
  METHODS
  The intervention proposed is made up of 4 interviews with a psychologist at the hospital, distributed over the year according to the diagnosis and conducted on the same day as a conventional follow-up consultation, then a consultation with a specialist job retention physician. We expect, in the first instance, that this intervention will reduce the social inequalities of the return-to-work rate at 12 months. The EPICES score will enable the population to be broken down according to the level of social precariousness. The other expected results are the reduction of the social inequalities in the quality of the return to work at 18 and 24 months and the disparities between the individual and collective resources of the patients. This intervention is assessed in the context of a controlled and randomised multi-centre study. The patients eligible are women aged between 18 and 55 years with a unilateral breast cancer with local extension exclusively, having received surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, in employment at the time of the diagnosis and dealt with by one of the 2 investigating centres.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is essential to assess this type of intervention before envisaging its generalisation. The study set in place will enable us to measure the impact of this intervention aiming to facilitate the return to work of breast cancer patients, in particular for those who suffer from social fragility, compared with the standard care.
authors.affiliation: University Lille Nord de France-Université de Lille III, Unité de Recherche en sciences Cognitives et Affectives (URECA) EA 1059, BP 60149, F-59653 Villeneuve-d'Ascq Cedex, France. clemence.vidor@univ-lille3.fr.
authors.forename: Clémence
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vidor
authors.forename: Ariane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leroyer
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Christophe
authors.forename: Mélanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seillier
authors.forename: Jérome
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Foncel
authors.forename: Justine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van de Maële
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bonneterre
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fantoni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D062707:Return to Work; D018582:Sick Leave; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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