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Thinking Skills for Work in Severe Mental Illness

NCT01926613 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2013-08-21

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Summary

The purpose of this study is help people with serious mental illness and receiving vocational rehabilitation get and keep the job they want by improving their thinking skills, such as attention and memory, using computer exercises and other strategies. One half of the participants in the study will receive vocational rehabilitation and the exercises to improve thinking skills, and the other half will receive just vocational rehabilitation. All participants will receive an assessment of symptoms and thinking skills at the beginning of the study and 6, 12, and 24 months later. Work activity during the 24 months in the study will be collected. It is expected that those participants who receive the practice of their thinking skills will be more likely to get and keep the job they want compared with people who do not receive this treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Thinking Skills for Work Program

The Thinking Skills for Work includes assessment of cognitive strengths and weaknesses and their relationship with work history, computerized cognitive practice, compensatory strategy training, and integration of cognitive and supported employment services.

BEHAVIORAL

Supported Employment

Supported Employment is an evidence based vocational rehabilitation program

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan R McGurk, Ph.D. · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-04-30
Primary Completion
2009-10-31
Completion
2011-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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