Improving Work Outcome for People With Severe Mental Illness

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of IPS in Denmark and compare effects of 1. Individual Placement and Support (IPS) vs. 2. IPS + cognitive remediation and work-related social skills training vs. 3. standard intervention, among individuals with severe mental illness.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia, Schizotypal and Delusional Disorders
• Bipolar Affective Disorder
• Recurrent Depressive Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Individual Placement and support (IPS)

IPS involves an employment specialist who is integrated within the mental health team, and carries out all phases of the vocational services, with a caseload on less than 25. The intervention is based on the 7 principles of IPS Supported Employment. The essence of these principles is an individualized and rapid search for competitive employment or education that avoids prolonged prevocational training and preparation. The intervention is integrated within the mental health services, with emphasis on client preference and choice regarding jobs, and with availability of on going job support and benefit counselling

BEHAVIORAL

IPS plus

Individual Placement and Support + cognitive remediation and work-related social skills training, consists of the IPS intervention + 24 sessions of computer based cognitive training and 24 group based sessions of cognitive coping strategies and work-related social skills training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Odense University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Odense Municipality

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Copenhagen Trial Unit, Center for Clinical Intervention Research

  collaborator OTHER

• Silkeborg Municipality

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Mental Health Services in the Capital Region, Denmark

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Lene F Eplov, MD, Phd · Copenhagen University Hospital, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen

• Merete Nordentoft, Professor · Copenhagen University Hospital, Mental Health Centre Copenhagen

• Elsebeth Stenager, MD, Phd · Department of Psychiatry, Odense, The University of Southern Denmark.

• Bent Nielsen, Professor · Department of Psychiatry, Odense, The University of Southern Denmark

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-10-31

Primary Completion

2017-08-31

Completion

2019-02-28

Countries

• Denmark

Study Locations