Well-being After Finalization of a Workers' Compensation Claim: A Cross-Sectional Survey
James Weir1, Robyn Fary, Tim Mitchell2
1Curtin School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Objective:
Injured workers can be disadvantaged after a workers' compensation claims ends. This study investigated the association of a range of variables with well-being in injured workers who had finalized a workers' compensation claim >3 months prior.
Methods:
On-line, cross-sectional survey (n = 129, 55.81% female). Well-being was measured using the Psychological Wellbeing 18-item (PWB) and the Personal Wellbeing Score (PWS).
Results:
Multivariable quantile regression analysis controlling for education level demonstrated associations between the PWB and levels of psychological distress (-1.53; 95% CI, -2.11 to -0.94; P < 0.001) and resilience (6.51; 95% CI, 2.65 to 10.37; P = 0.001), and between the PWS and levels of psychological distress (-0.04; 95% CI, -0.51 to -0.29; P < 0.001) and resilience (1.2; 95% CI 0.47 to 1.93), P = 0.001.
Conclusions:
Contemporaneous variables of resilience and psychological distress were stronger correlates with well-being than historic claim-related variables.
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