?Placement Budgets? for supported employment - improving competitive employment for people with mental illness

Conditions

Mental illness Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Wulf Rössler, M. Ujeyl, Wolfram Kawohl, Carlos Nordt, Antonio Lasalvia et al. (7 authors)

Frontiers in Psychiatry2019-07-1911 citations

10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00518

Employment and Mental Health

Wolfram Kawohl

European Psychiatry2015-03-016 citations

10.1016/s0924-9338(15)30079-1

'Placement budgets' for supported employment--improving competitive employment for people with mental illness: study protocol of a multicentre randomized controlled trial.

Nordt C, Brantschen E, Kawohl W, Bärtsch B, Haker H, Rüsch N, Rössler W.

2012-10-0414 citations

10.1186/1471-244x-12-165

Interventions

Supported Employment according to the IPS (Individual Placement and Support) model, randomizing the patients to three different placement budgets of 25h, 40h, or 55h working hours of the job coaches.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Current treatment in one of the six participating outpatient psychiatric clinics 2. Twelve months unemployment and no program of vocational integration over the last three months 3. Motivation to work in competitive employment 4. Working age (18-60 years) 5. Resident in the canton of Zurich 6. Willing and capable of giving informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Severe organic illness (ICD-10, F0) 1. Insufficient knowledge of German

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Time between study inclusion and first competitive employment that lasted 3 months or longer	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Motivation 2. Stigmatization 3. Social network and social support 4. Quality of life 5. Job satisfaction 6. Financial situation 7. Health conditions Measured at baseline (t0) and every six months thereafter (t1-t6)	—

Countries

Switzerland

Outcome results

None listed