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Employment Outcomes After Vocational Training

NCT03152032 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 323

Last updated 2017-05-12

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Summary

This multicenter retrospective cohort study examined the employment outcomes of the innovative in-house vocational training (IHVT) programs for individuals with chronic psychiatric disorders (CPD) and explored the program parameters significantly predictive of the outcomes. The IHVT programs were government-funded services offered to newly discharged inpatients or current outpatients with chronic psychiatric disorders (CPD) in four regional psychiatric hospitals of Taiwan. Each program was staffed with occupational therapists and paid or volunteer job coaches, along with cross-disciplinary support from psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, vocational specialists or others. Data were retrieved from 323 participants with CPD who completed the IHVT and the 1st-, 3rd-, and 6th-month follow-up interviews. The employment outcomes examined were the participants' employment rates at the 1st-, 3rd-, and 6th-month post-training as well as their sustainability of employment during the 6 months post-training.

Conditions

  • Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
  • Bipolar and Related Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

In-House Vocational Training Programs

At the beginning of the IHVT programs, the job placement for each participant was determined jointly by the participant's interest, the demands of local job markets and the team evaluation. The programs covered 6 to 10 months in length, 5 days a week and 4 to 6 hours a day. The programs contained three sessions: (a) the work-related behavior training session, such as proper appearance, communication and self assertion, and workplace social skills, (b) the on-the-job skill training session where participants gained job-specific training and interventions from job coaches and occupational therapists, and (c) the life balance counseling session including individual and group counseling that aimed to enhance the participants' ability to tackle potential hardships and barriers to work.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • TsaoTun Psychiatric Center, Department of Health, Taiwan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hui-Ling Lee, MS · Tsaotun Psychiatric Center, Nantou County, Taiwan

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-08-01
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2016-07-31

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