Objective: This review sought to synthesize existing evidence on work capacity assessments
and to identify the knowledge supporting their use in return to work practice and future …

Perceived work ability refers to a worker's assessment of his or her ability to continue
working in his or her job, given characteristics of the job along with his or her resources …

Research on the concept of existing unidimensional Perceived Work Ability scale (PWA) in
organizational science has recently increased due to its prediction of important work …

Purpose Participation in regular paid jobs positively affects mental and physical health of all
people, including people with limited work capacities (LWC), people that are limited in their …

ABSTRACT Introduction: In Swedish society the sick-leave rate is high and a better
understanding is required of the factors that facilitate return to work. In the return to work …

Purpose: This article outlines our overall approach, qualitative work, and pilot testing to
develop a tool to facilitate identification of level of support needs and assist in planning for …

Background It is argued that one of the factors limiting the understanding of return to work
(RTW) following work disability is the use of measurement tools that do not capture a …

The aging of the industrialized workforce has spurred research on how to support people
working later in life. Within this context, the concept of work ability, or an employee's ability to …

Background The challenges of returning to work after sickness absence demands a wide
conceptual understanding of what hinders the employee's work participation. Thus, there is …

Adequate work assessments are a matter of importance both for individuals and society [5,
29, 31, 38, 40, 46, 52]. However, there is a lack of adequate and reliable instruments for use …