Integrated Supported Employment in Mainland China

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Schizophrenia

Treatments: Other: Integrated Supported Employment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03273530

201415

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this randomized controlled trial, the researchers investigated the effectiveness of integrated supported employment (ISE) as compared with individual placement and support (IPS) and traditional vocational rehabilitation (TVR) for people with schizophrenia in mainland China.

Full description

One hundred and sixty-two participants with schizophrenia were randomly assigned to ISE (n = 54), IPS (n = 54), and or TVR (n = 54). Blinded assessments of employment status, job tenure, and psychological outcomes were conducted at admission, completion of the 3-mo program, and follow-up at 7, 11, and 15 mo.

Enrollment: 162 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18 years or older;
• Diagnosis of schizophrenia for at least 2 years
• Being unemployed
• Willing to give informed consent
• Having no obvious cognitive, learning, or neurological impairment
• Having completed primary school education
• Having a desire to work

Exclusion criteria

• Having score lower than 18 on the 30-item Mini-Mental State Examination

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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162 participants in 3 patient groups

Integrated Supported Employment

Experimental group

Description:

Individual placement support intervention plus work-related social skills training

Treatment:

Other: Integrated Supported Employment

Individualised Placement Support

No Intervention group

Description:

Individual placement support intervention with pre-vocational training followed by placing individual participants to the job according to their preference and abilities

Traditional Vocational Rehabilitation

No Intervention group

Description:

general pre-vocational training and placement