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2008-2010 Grant RecipientsGreat-West Life Innovation Fund of the FCPA
Mental Health in the Workplace InitiativeClinical Innovations and Promising Practices in Psychiatric Disability Management
Development and Evaluation of a Return-to-Work Program for Persons with Anxiety Disorders ($28,000)
Jaye Wald, PhD
This project will develop and assess the efficacy of an integrative pilot return-to-work (RTW) protocol for persons on temporary disability leave from work due to an anxiety disorder. The project aims to identify the clinical, psychosocial, and organizational factors involved in the RTW process. The protocol will use a collaborative care model involving psychiatrists, psychologists, and vocational rehabilitation counsellors. The project will proceed in four phases. The protocol will be based on a systematic literature review, content expert interviews and patient focus groups. It will be pilot-tested, assessed and disability management guidelines will be developed.
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for the Prevention of Depressive Relapse in the Workplace ($30,000)
Mark Lau, PhD, RPsych; Andrea Grabovac, MD FRCPC
This project will develop improved Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) treatment protocols for employees who have recovered from depression and have returned to work. The project will evaluate employee preference regarding MBCT treatment formats (group in person, group via internet, individual, or individual via telephone); evaluate the feasibility and benefits of delivering MBCT in these formats; and the effectiveness of a training program for psychiatrists to provide MBCT in group and individual formats.
Identifying Factors with a Risk of Workplace Violence and Aggression by Employees ($28,000)
Michael Seto PhD; Phil Klassen, MD FRCPC
Maurice Siu, MD FRCPC
This project aims to identify individual factors that predict future workplace violence or aggression. It will collect information from clinical case files of workplace risk assessments completed by psychiatrists and psychologists. Data will also be collected from employers on subsequent work outcomes (e.g. return to work, transfer or termination) and further incidents of workplace violence or aggression. The data will be used to develop a clinical measure to help practitioners make more reliable and accurate assessments of workplace risk. It is hypothesized that improving risk assessments will improve individual worker adjustment, increase workplace productivity and morale, and reduce compensation claims.
Evaluation of a Disease-Management Intervention Designed to Reduce Disability ($4,800)
Sagar V. Parikh, MD, FRCPC
Raymond Lam, MD, FRCPC
This project will evaluate the intervention component of the modular Continuing Health Education (CHE) Program that incorporates evidence-based educational and collaborative disease management strategies to optimize the practical use of clinical guidelines. The focus will be on occupational outcomes for workers with depression (working with depression) and the links between psychiatrists and 180 family physicians who treat workers in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia. The evaluation will use a validated audit tool known as Chart Stimulated Recall (CSR).
Intervisions Cliniques: Implementation of an Innovative Strategy to Improve Collaboration Between Psychiatrists and Family Doctors ($5,000)
Alain D. Lesage, MD, FRCPC, DFAPA, FCPA
François Borgeat, MD, FRCPC; Nida Sieu, MD
Christo Todorov, MD; François-Yves Prévost, MD
Ghislaine O. Roederer, MD, PhD
This study will describe the development and implementation of Intervisions Cliniques, a continued professional development program in mental health care based out of the Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital in Montreal. This program promotes collaborative, problem-based learning through small bi-monthly luncheon sessions between psychiatrists and family doctors. Family doctors bring forward clinical problems and participating psychiatrists offer practical solutions. The program characteristics, its implementation and the key factors that helped and hindered the set-up of the program will be identified. Recommendations will be offered on the generalization and implementation of this program in other jurisdictions.
Antidepressant Skills@Work: Dissemination of a Behavioural Intervention for Low Mood and Depression in Psychiatric Care ($30,000)
Joti Samra, RPsych, Elliot Goldner, MD, FRCPC
Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC
This project will disseminate best practice guidelines for the management of workplace mental health issues and occupational disability, as well as an evidence-based self-management workbook for low mood and depression in the workplace to psychiatrists and their patients. Uptake and acceptability will be assessed to determine the feasibility of future dissemination to a larger group of psychiatrists and patients. The project aims to provide psychiatrists and their patients with evidence-based, practical tools and skills to address presenteeism, relapse prevention and returning to the workforce.
The Great-West Life Innovation Fund of the FCPA was made possible through a grant to the FCPA from the Great-West Life Assurance Company. |
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February 04, 2012
