Effect Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Substance Abuse; Anxiety; Psychosis; Depression
• Interventions: Behavioral: Individual Placement and Support; Behavioral: Ordinary employment schemes

• Registration Number: NCT01964092
• Lead Sponsor: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

Brief Summary

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).

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-05
• Study First Submitted: 2013-07-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-10-16
• Study First Posted: 2013-10-17
• Primary Completion: 2016-12
• Study Completion: 2018-12
• Results First Submitted: 2019-09-28
• Status Verified: 2020-05
• Results First Submitted QC: 2020-05-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-05-04
• Results First Posted: 2020-05-14
• Last Update Posted: 2020-05-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 410

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Individual Placement and Support	Individual Placement and Support	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.
Ordinary employment schemes	Ordinary employment schemes	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Labor Market Participation in Ordinary Paid Employment, or Education.	1 year (2016)	Labor market participation is operationalized as being registered in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administrations (NAV) State Register of Employers and Employees, and not as a recipient of unemployment or sickness benefits, not receiving work assessment allowance or disability pension with a higher degree of disability than by study inclusion, and registered yearly income.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Uni Research; 🇳🇴 Bergen, Norway