Effect Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)

NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychosis; Depression; Anxiety; Substance Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Ordinary employment schemes; Behavioral: Individual Placement and Support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01964092

IPS-NAV

Details and patient eligibility

About

Roughly one third of disability pensions issued in Norway are classified as mental and behavioral disorders. The proposed study aims to evaluate the effect of an innovative intervention for returning people with moderate to severe mental health disorders to work: Individual Placement and Support (IPS).

Full description

The current employment schemes offered to this diagnostic group are primarily based on a train-and-place principle with assisted or sheltered employment. Building on a place-and-train principle, rather, the IPS model of supported employment in real-life competitive work settings has proven largely successful in previous studies, but has never been tested in this group in the Norwegian context.

Enrollment: 410 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 67 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants must be undergoing treatment for moderate to severe mental health problems.
• Participants must have an expressed desire to work.
• Participants must have sufficient Norwegian reading and writing skills.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants are not undergoing treatment for moderate to severe mental health problems.
• Participants do not have an expressed desire to work.
• Participants do not have sufficient Norwegian reading and writing skills.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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410 participants in 2 patient groups

Individual Placement and Support

Experimental group

Description:

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a well-defined intervention aiming to help people with disabilities participate in the competitive labor market by working in jobs they prefer with the professional help that they need. IPS actively facilitates job acquisition and provides ongoing support once the client is employed.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Individual Placement and Support

Ordinary employment schemes

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will receive treatment as usual in terms of the ordinary employment schemes offered to this group, primarily Work with assistance and/or Traineeship in a sheltered business.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ordinary employment schemes