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Testing the Efficacy of Opening Doors: A Career Guidance Intervention for Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities

NCT03409991 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 108

Last updated 2021-10-22

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Summary

This project is designed to develop and test a career guidance intervention called Opening Doors (OD) expected to assist individuals with psychiatric disabilities acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to pursue and advance in their careers. This project is a three-stage mixed methods study to 1) refine and pilot-test the Opening Doors career guidance intervention, 2) conduct a randomized control trial (RCT) to test the efficacy of the intervention with a waitlist control group, and 3) conduct a qualitative and process sub-study of the critical ingredients of the OD intervention from the perspective of participants. This study takes place at the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (CPR). It is hypothesized that when compared to control group participants, individuals receiving Opening Doors will report 1) higher levels of vocational and pre-vocational activities, 2) greater career adaptability, fewer dysfunctional and more functional career thoughts, 3) greater work hope when compared to the waitlist control group participants, 4) greater vocational goal attainment, and 5) improved symptoms and functioning.

Conditions

  • Psychiatric Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Opening Doors

This project is designed as a three-stage mixed methods study to test the efficacy of a career guidance intervention for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. We are using both a randomized clinical trial design coupled with a small qualitative sub-study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

    collaborator FED

  • Boston University Charles River Campus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Erna S. Rogers, Sc.D. · Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-24
Primary Completion
2021-09-14
Completion
2021-09-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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