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EEPIC: Enhancing employability through positive interventions for increasing career potential. A high support career guidance intervention to improve the well-being and employability of the long term unemployed in Ireland

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Psychological well-being
Not Applicable
Registration Number
ISRCTN16801028
Lead Sponsor
Maynooth University
Brief Summary

2018 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29482648 protocol

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
120
Inclusion Criteria

Participants are unemployed job seekers who:
1. Must be clients of the public employment services (DSP/Intreo) and in receipt of a job seekers payment
2. Are referred by the DSP/Intreo office to Pathways to Work (Activation)
3. Have a duration of unemployment > 12months
4. Are aged 18-60 years
5. Are male/female
6. Have attended a Group Information Session (GIS)
Participants must provide written, informed consent before engaging in either intervention (EEPIC Informed Consent Form)

Exclusion Criteria

Job seekers who have:
1. Disclosed serious mental health issues
2. Disclosed serious drug use issues
3. Have not attended their first post-GIS appointment following at least three attempts to engage them and who have been referred back to DSP/Intreo

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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