Effect Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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
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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.

Official Title
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Effect Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)

Conditions
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Anxiety, Psychosis, Substance Abuse, Depression

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Individual Placement and Support
* Behavioral: Ordinary employment schemes


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 67 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Individual Placement and Support<br>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. | Behavioral: Individual Placement and Support<br> <br> |
| Active Comparator: Ordinary employment schemes<br>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. | Behavioral: Ordinary employment schemes<br> <br> |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Labor Market Participation in Ordinary Paid Employment, or Education. | 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. | 1 year (2016) | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Disability, Individual placement and support, Mental health, Quality of life, Randomized controlled trial, Rehabilitation, Return to work, Supported employment