Clinical trial NCT02641704: The Development Path
Official title: A Descriptive Study of Characteristics and Progression of Citizens Assigned to a Multidisciplinary Program Focusing on Moving Citizens From Unemployment and Social Security Benefits to Employment and Education
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Absenteeism
Lead sponsor: University of Southern Denmark
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Sonderborg Municipality
First posted: 2015-12-29
Enrollment: 146
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Unemployed citizens with complex health-related problems assigned to a multidisciplinary program in Sønderborg Municipality

Brief summary: The aim of this project is a research-based evaluation of a multidisciplinary program focusing on moving citizens from unemployment and social security benefits to employment and education in Sonderborg Municipality. The citizens who are assigned cannot readily enter the labor market or can get education through employment initiatives in the Job Centre in Sonderborg Municipality because of complex health-related troubles.

The project is designed to include a prospective observational study and a qualitative study using questionnaires, observations, interviews and informations about employment from the Sonderborg Municipality.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Assigned to a multidisciplinary program in Sonderborg Municipality (the Law on Active Employment §68 https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/r0710.aspx?id=164698#Kap2 )

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not able to communicate in Danish

Primary outcomes:
measure: Well-being
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Well-being
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Work ability
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Work ability
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Pain
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Pain
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Interpersonal Problems
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Interpersonal Problems
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Physical capacity
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Physical capacity
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Kinesiophobia
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Kinesiophobia
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Self-efficacy
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Self-efficacy
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Depression and anxiety
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Depression and anxiety
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Loneliness
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Loneliness
timeFrame: 24 months
measure: Ability to work
timeFrame: 12 months
measure: Ability to work
timeFrame: 24 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Sønderborg
country: Denmark
facility: Sønderborg Municipality
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Southern Denmark
name: Lotte Nygaard Andersen, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Andersen LN, Stochkendahl MJ, Roessler KK. En route to flourishing - a longitudinal mixed methods study of long-term unemployed citizens in an interdisciplinary rehabilitation program. BMC Public Health. 2022 Apr 7;22(1):675. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13060-9.
citation: Andersen LN, Stochkendahl MJ, Roessler KK. Parked on the verge: vocational rehabilitation of long-term unemployed citizens - a mixed methods study. Arch Public Health. 2022 Mar 7;80(1):73. doi: 10.1186/s13690-022-00838-x.
citation: Andersen LN, Stochkendahl MJ, Roessler KK. A municipality-based vocational rehabilitation programme for occupationally marginalized citizens: a study protocol for a mixed methods study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 Jul 3;18(1):517. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3322-4.