Promoting resilience in work rehabilitation: development of a transdiagnostic intervention.

The aim of this study was to develop an operationalized transdiagnostic resilience-based intervention for workers at risk of long-term work disability. A sequential mixed method design was used. Expert clinicians ( Experts identified 15 statements on clarity, applicability, relevance or exhaustiveness in the questionnaire that did not achieve consensus and generated 41 modification proposals. The consensus group adopted 15 modifications. The adapted intervention was well-accepted by the workers who had completed a work rehabilitation program. They perceived the intervention as positive, relevant, coherent, useful and consistent with their values. A new transdiagnostic resilience intervention in work rehabilitation is available and was on exploratory basis seen acceptable by workers. Next step would be to validate it at a larger scale with more workers and other stakeholders.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONPromoting workers resilience in work rehabilitation fosters a holistic approach in clinical practice.Resilience interventions should be integrated into work rehabilitation programs.A new transdiagnostic resilience intervention designed to complement current work rehabilitation programs is available.