Trial of Supported Employment Versus USES Supported Employment

VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Supported Employment; Behavioral: Using Strengths in Employment System (USES)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00261235

MIRECC

SR0007

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of USES, a strengths-based enhancement to supported employment (SE), as compared to supported employment alone.

Full description

The objective of this study is to test the effectiveness of supported employment plus Using Strengths in Employment Services (USES), an enhancement to supported employment that seeks to identify and increase the use of personal strengths, as compared to supported employment alone, for veterans with severe mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders. We hypothesize that rates of competitive employment will be greater in the experimental group than the control group. We also expect that individuals in the USES group will have greater job tenure, and will show greater improvements in recovery measures such as empowerment, self-efficacy and self-esteem.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Veteran
• Unemployed
• Referred by clinician to SE services
• Able to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)