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. 2022 Aug 15:kqac086. doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqac086

Table 1.

Survey summary

Health status (5 items)
Quantitative questions 1.  Which of the following best describes your COVID-19 experience at its most serious?(mild/ at home, severe at home, hospitalized, hospitalized and ICU)
2.  How long ago? (current, within the last month, between a month/ 6 months ago, more than 6 months ago)
3.  COVID-19 Duration? (less than a week, one–two weeks, two weeks–one month, between a month and 6 months, more than 6 months)
Open ended 4.  How would you say your health has been affected by COVID-19?
5.  How would you say your existing conditions have been affected by COVID-19?
Workability/return-to-work status (7 items)
Quantitative (RTW) 6.  Have you resumed work? (fully, partially, not yet, not anticipating to resume work, did not stop working)
7.  Psychological workability—How do you rate your current workability with respect to the psychological and demands of your work?(1 very good, 2 rather good, 3 moderate, 4 rather poor, 5 poor)
8.  Physical workability: How do you rate your current workability with respect to physical demands of your work? (1, very good, 2 rather good, 3 moderate, 4 rather poor, 5 poor)
Open ended(RTW) 9.  If you have resumed work, how easy have you found it? (For example, how easy was it to continue working without any further sickness absence).
Return-to-work obstacles (1 item, 4 parts)
Quantitative (RTW) 10. What do you view as the obstacles that make or have made return-to-work harder (individual (e.g. health, psychological), job, support (managerial), organizational, external)?
a. Individual (e.g. health, psychological),
b. Job (e.g. working patterns, physical and psychological demands)
c. Support (e.g. line manager, peer, human resources, occupational health),
d. Organisational (e.g. shared attitudes about health at work, reporting systems, absence management procedures, flexible working policies, communication practices, job security)
e. External(e.g. access to health care, ability to get to work, family support)
Return-to-work enablers (1 item, 4 parts)
Open ended 11. What enablers would make or have made your return-to-work easier?
a. Individual (e.g. health, psychological),
b. Job (working patterns, physical and psychological demands)
c. Support (e.g. line manager, peer, human resources, occupational health),
d. Organisational:(e.g. shared attitudes about health at work, reporting systems, absence management procedures, flexible working polices, communication practices, job security)
e. External. e.g. (access to health care, ability to get to work, family support)
12. How do you think these obstacles enablers differ according to whether you are having to return-to-work or return to working (at home)?
13. How long do you think any adjustments for making resumption of work easier should reasonably last?
Benefits for employees
14. What do you think might be/are the benefits for the employer in supporting your recovery?