SCION - Study on Cost-effectiveness of IPS regarding Open employment in the Netherlands.

Conditions: Severe mental illness

Registration Number: NL-OMON23781

Lead Sponsor: -Trimbos Institute (Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction)-Rob Giel Research centre Secondary:Four mental health care organisations:- Adhesie GGZ Midden-Overijssel - GGzE - Eindhoven- GGZ Groep Europoort / Maaskringgroep - GGZ Groningen

Brief Summary: /A

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Pending

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

1. Clients of mental health teams specifically focussed at people with severe mental illness (e.g. diagnosis of a serious mental illness (schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders, bipolar disorder, depression with psychotic features);

2. Age 18 - 65 years (i.e. age of retirement);

Exclusion Criteria

N/A

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Proportion entering competitive employment during the follow-up period;<br /> <br>2. Competitive employment is defined as part- or full-time work in competitive job market at prevailing wages with supervision provided by personnel employed by the business and in integrated work settings; <br /><br>3. In a secondary analysis we will also include subsidized work in regular job settings (including temporary competitive work without loss of benefits rights.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Vocational: <br /><br>1. Hours in competitive employment; <br /><br>2. Jobs held; <br /><br>3. Duration of each job in days; <br /><br>4. Days from baseline to entering first job; <br /><br>5. Total earnings; <br /><br>6. Job satisfaction (Indiana Job Satisfaction Scale); <br /><br>7. Generic work behaviour (Generic Work Behaviour Questionnaire); <br />Hospitalisation: <br /><br>8. Admissions; <br /><br>9. Days in hospital; <br /><br>Clinical: <br /><br>10. Psychiatric symptoms; <br /><br>11. Global functioning (Global Assessment of Functioning Scale S-D); <br /><br>12. Self-esteem; <br /><br>13. Quality of life; <br /><br>14. Costs: based on Client Socio-demographic and Service Receipt Inventory.