As some people don't speak either Dutch or French, and other people wouldn't
read it all, I thought I highlight a few interesting bits from:
"Evaluatierapport - Referentiecentra voor het Chronisch
vermoeidheidssyndroom (CVS)"/
"Rapport d¡¯¨¦valuation concernant les centres de r¨¦f¨¦rence pour le
syndrome de fatigue chronique"
(ref:
http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0701D&L=CO-CURE&P=R3379&I=-3&
m=16601 or http://tinyurl.com/2uqoqs
And
http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0701E&L=CO-CURE&P=R427&I=-3&m
=16601 or http://tinyurl.com/366v5l . Tom K.]
"Conform¨¦ment ¨¤ la convention, l'am¨¦lioration significative du
fonctionnement socioprofessionnel des patients est l'un des
objectifs de la r¨¦¨¦ducation. Les donn¨¦es montrent n¨¦anmoins que le
pourcentage moyen d'activit¨¦s professionnelles r¨¦mun¨¦r¨¦es diminue
encore jusqu'¨¤ 14,9% ¨¤ la fin de la r¨¦¨¦ducation. Six pour cents des
patients travaillent plus qu'avant la r¨¦¨¦ducation, 10% travaillent
moins. Pour 84% des patients, le pourcentage d'activit¨¦s
professionnelles r¨¦mun¨¦r¨¦es ne change pas."
[Here's my quick attempt at translating this for anyone interested:
"In accordance with convention, significant improvement in the
socioprofessionnel functioning of the patients is one of the
objectives of the re-education/re-training. Nevertheless the data
shows that the average percentage of paid work decreased further to
just 14.9% at the end of the re-education/re-training.
Six per cent of the patients were working more than before the re-
education/re-training, 10% were working less. For 84% of the
patients the percentage of paid work didn't change."]
This could be useful data if there was pressure on anybody, either
from a private insurance company or State Social Welfare/Security
departments, to do one of these
courses anywhere.
Tables 69-71 have lots of interesting data on this
["Indemnit¨¦s CPAS" -"income of integration or equivalent assistance
like foreigner"/"minimum of equivalent assistance or means of
existence like foreigner" - maybe something like what is given to
asylum seekers?]
[The percentages are the fraction of a working week (set at 38
hours) spent in paid employment - see table 69]
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For those that don't understand it, I thought I would do a rough translation
of table 70.
I think it could be very useful if ever faced with situations where it is
claimed GET and CBT problems can be
(and/or should be) used to get people/help people back to work.
"Tableau 70. Reprise de travail apr¨¨s la r¨¦¨¦ducation en fonction de la
dur¨¦e depuis que les patients n¡¯ont plus travaill¨¦ avant le d¨¦but du
programme de r¨¦¨¦ducation de bilan"
"Table 70. Return to work after the functional rehabilitation (programme)
with regard to the length of time the patients had not worked before the
start of the assessment for the rehabilitation programme"
"Dur¨¦e depuis quand les patients non plus effectu¨¦ des activit¨¦s
professionnelles salari¨¦es au moment du programme de r¨¦¨¦ducation de
bilan"
"The length of time that the patients had not done paid work, at the time of
the assessment for the rehabilitation programme"
"Pourcentage de patients n¡¯effectuant aucune activit¨¦ professionnelle
salari¨¦e au moment du programme de r¨¦¨¦ducation de bilan mais bien ¡"
"Percentage of the patients who were not doing anypaid work at the time of
the assessment for the rehabilitation programme but were"
¡ ¨¤ la fin de la r¨¦¨¦ducation
"at the end of the rehabilitation (programme)"
¡ 6 mois apr¨¨s la fin de la r¨¦¨¦ducation
"six months after the end of the rehabilitation (programme)"
¡ 12 mois apr¨¨s la fin de la r¨¦¨¦ducation
"six months after the end of the rehabilitation (programme)"
Nombre de patients
"Number of patients"
¡Ý 2 ans et < 5 ans
" greater than or are equal to two years and less than five years"
Patients n¡¯ayant jamais travaill¨¦ avant le programme de r¨¦¨¦ducation de
bilan
"patients who had never worked before the assessment for the rehabilitation
programme"
82% des 22 patients reprenant le travail le font ¨¤ temps partiel.
"82% of the 22 patients who returned to work were doing it part-time (i.e.
were working part-time)
[Tom: That means that of the 266 people, four were working full-time year
after the end of the programme!].
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And this was a situation where one of the aims was to try to get the people
back to work!
e.g. Annex 3:
"Tableau. Efforts de r¨¦insertion professionnelle."
"Things done to try to bring about reintegration into the workforce"
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There is no control group but it seems likely that if they followed
266 people who had suffered from CFS for various periods (incl. some
who had been out of work less than six months) and who were well
enough that they were able to complete a rehabilitation programme,
that at least one and possibly more than four would be back in work
full-time after around 19 months (on average) (the median length of
time being discussed here) without having to do one of these
programmes!
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Centre using "Michael Sharpe's model"
For one of the centres, UCL - Mont Godinne, Annexe 3 says:
"Psychoth¨¦rapie
Le traitement se base entre autres sur le mod¨¨le de Michael Sharpe."
[The treatment is based on, amongst others, Michael Sharpe's model
For this centre, the figures are a little worse than the average
figures!:
Percentage of a week in paid employment (based on a 38 hour week):
Average for all the centres: 18.3% before the programme; 14.9% at
the end of the programme.
For UCL - Mont Godinne: 32.7% before the programme; 23.0% at the end
of the programme.
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Overall the percentages for (at the end of the programme):
Working more; working the same; working less; are:
6% 84% 10%
For UCL - Mont Godinne (where they use Michael Sharpe's model)
5% 77% 18%
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Tom (Kindlon)
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