Chart 1. The detailed information of the intervention.

Themes	Objectives	Contents	Methods
Focus on rehabilitation	1. Understand the importance of returning to work. 2. Master the knowledge of physical and mental rehabilitation and self-management methods. 3. Implement the self-management plan.	1. Encourage patients to express their views on returning to work, communicate with patients about the positive significance of returning to work, and help them build their belief in comprehensive recovery. 2. Carry out health education actively, and give out health education leaflets. Encourage patients to strengthen their study, master the knowledge of cancer recovery and keep a good attitude. 3. Guide patients to reflect on factors that are detrimental to their physical and mental recovery (such as bad living habits, environmental factors, personality defects, et al.), discuss targeted solutions with patients, and seek support from peers, family members, and medical staff when necessary. 4. Ask patients’ healthcare providers about their health status and help them develop a self-health management plan. 5. Sign rehabilitation contracts with patients to enhance their compliance with health management. 1. Understand the views of the patient’s family members, peers, leaders, colleagues, and medical staff on patients’ illness and their return to work, and help them establish a correct view of rehabilitation. 2. Inform the patient’s family members, peers, leaders, colleagues, and medical staff of the importance of their care and support for their returning to work and complete recovery, and encourage them to offer their support. 3. Understand the condition of patients’ discussions with their family members, peers, colleagues, leaders, and medical staff about returning to work, ask them about their concerns and confusion on returning to work, and discuss solutions with patients. 4. Encourage patients to perceive the support from their own beliefs, family members, leaders, colleagues, peers, medical workers, and other aspects, record it in the diaries and review it regularly to constantly firm their belief of comprehensive recovery.	① ② ①③
Rebuild self-efficacy	Be familiar with ways to improve self-efficacy.	5. Guide patients to find examples of ‘role models’ who have successfully returned to work after cancer, and share the experience and positive energy gained. 6. Encourage patients to share their experiences of overcoming difficulties and achieving success in the past and the insights gained from them. 7. Self-confidence training ① Positive psychological suggestion training: urge patients to smile to themselves every day, repeat positive words, and give patients timely affirmation and praise. ② Mental resilience training: teach patients common stress coping skills, encourage patients to face pressure actively, and guide them to solve problems by clarifying and understanding issues, breaking complex problems into small steps, proposing solutions, and summarizing issues. ③ Patients are encouraged to gradually adjust their daily work and rest, and gradually integrate with the daily work and rest of the working stage. ④ Encourage the patient to do things related to work gradually. 1. Invite medical staff to make scientific decisions on the appropriate time, position, and workload for patients to return to work according to their conditions.	④ ⑤
Adjust and plan	Achieve the goal of returning to work gradually.	2. Based on the advice of the medical staffs, ask patients about communication with their family members, peers, leaders, colleagues, etc., and urge the patient to actively seek support for returning to work if necessary. 3. Ask the patient about his/her work goal, discuss with him/her appropriate career goals according to his/her recovery condition, make a gradual career plan, and evaluate the relationship between health and work. 4. Summarize the contents of this intervention protocol to enhance the adaptability of returning to work.	①

Methods: ①Individual communication and interview; ②Family meetings; ③Write diaries ; ④Thematical communication; ⑤Mini-classes.