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Improving Vocational Outcomes in Arthritis

NCT00000407 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 326

Last updated 2016-01-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The long-term objectives of this research project are to enhance program participation and improve the employment prospects of people with work disability due to arthritis and related musculoskeletal disorders (ARMD) who are actively seeking vocational (job-related) rehabilitation (VR) services.

This study is designed to compare the employment situations of a group of people receiving a two-part intervention and a group that is not receiving the intervention. The intervention consists of training sessions to help prospective VR clients with ARMD successfully enter and complete the VR program, and training sessions for a randomly selected group of VR professionals to help them serve VR clients with ARMD more effectively.

Conditions

  • Arthritis
  • Musculoskeletal Diseases
  • Rheumatic Diseases

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Vocational counseling intervention

BEHAVIORAL

Reading materials for control participants

BEHAVIORAL

Standard of care

No education or behavioral intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Richard S. Maisiak, PhD, MSPH · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1997-01-31
Completion
2001-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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