A Strength-Based Employment Maintenance Program for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Work Self-Efficacy Scale
研究概览
简要总结
The investigators are looking to evaluate how effective a training program that focuses on character strengths may be in improving job maintenance skills in young adults. The investigators are examining the effects of this intervention in young adults who feel they would like to help in improving their satisfaction with work, and in keeping their jobs.
详细描述
Individuals with autism possess employable and valuable strengths and abilities. Unfortunately, despite these strengths, individuals with autism experience challenges in obtaining and maintaining employment. Traditionally, the majority of interventions designed for autism (including those focused on employment) focus on remediating deficits, without harnessing the strengths of those with autism. This deficit-based approach (i.e. to fix what is deficient in a person with autism) has triggered increasing criticism and dissatisfaction from the autism community. A growing shift toward strength-based training tools represent a holistic approach to treatment of autistic individuals by acknowledging and using their strengths to improve outcomes. To date, no strength-based employment programs have been examined in individuals with autism. Thus, in the current project, the investigators aim to develop and test a strength-based employment program. At Kessler Foundation, the investigators have developed a strength-based training tool: Kessler Foundation Strength Identification and Expression (KF-STRIDE®) which targets job interview skills by teaching individuals with autism to identify and express their personal strengths to a future employer. In the current proposal, the investigators aim to adapt this program to specifically target job maintenance skills.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 26 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Lives in the United States of America
- •Between the ages of 14-26
- •Speaks English well and at a 4th grade reading level
排除标准
- •Had a stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, or neurological injury or disease in the past(like brain tumor or epilepsy)
- •Has a history of significant psychiatric illness(like schizophrenia or psychosis)
- •Has uncontrolled seizures or other unstable medical complications
结局指标
主要结局
Work Self-Efficacy Scale
时间窗: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8
10 items, scores range from 10-50 with higher scores indicating perceived work capability.
Patients Global Impression of Change
时间窗: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8
Measure of perception of intervention resulting in meaningful change for a participant's life. 6 Items, with higher score indicating effectiveness of positive change.
Parent Report Employment Questionnaire
时间窗: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8
Consists of questions answered by parents regarding employment difficulties in their children . Questions of employment valued by yes or no, with yes being valued higher. And amount of hours worked from 0-40, with higher score indicating a better outcome.
Strengths Knowledge and Strengths Use Scale(SKUS)
时间窗: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8
Measure to assess knowledge and use of one's strengths and measure changes following strengths-based interventions. Two scores: Strengths Use and Strengths Knowledge. Strengths Use values range from 14-98, with higher score indicating a better outcome. Strengths Knowledge values range from 8-56, with higher score indicating a better outcome.
Flourishing(FS)
时间窗: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8
Measure of well-being and "flourishing". Values range from 8-56, with higher score indicating a better outcome.
Strengths Self-Efficacy Scale
时间窗: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8
Measures the level of one's confidence in her/his ability to practice and apply her/his strengths. 34 items, scores range from 0-340
Intervention Effectiveness From Participant Point
时间窗: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8
Measure of perception of intervention resulting in meaningful change for a participant's life. 15 Items, with higher score indicating effectiveness of positive change.
次要结局
- Minnesota Work Satisfaction(Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8)
- Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale(CD-RISC)(Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8)
- Work Chat Assessment(Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8)
- Job search(Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8)
- Twenty Statements Task(Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8)
- Search for Work Self-Efficacy Scale(Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8)
- Voicemail Elicitation Task(VET)/ Email Elicitation Task(EET)(Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8)
- Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale(RSES)(Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8)