Clinical trial NCT01964092: Effect Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
Official title: Effect Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Psychosis
Substance Abuse
Depression
Anxiety
Keywords: Disability
Individual placement and support
Mental health
Quality of life
Randomized controlled trial
Rehabilitation
Return to work
Supported employment
Lead sponsor: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration
First posted: 2013-10-17
Enrollment: 410
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 67
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

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.

Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Labor Market Participation in Ordinary Paid Employment, or Education.
timeFrame: 1 year (2016)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bergen
country: Norway
facility: Uni Research
Study officials:
affiliation: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
name: Silje E Reme, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Sveinsdottir V, Lovvik C, Fyhn T, Monstad K, Ludvigsen K, Overland S, Reme SE. Protocol for the effect evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS): a randomized controlled multicenter trial of IPS versus treatment as usual for patients with moderate to severe mental illness in Norway. BMC Psychiatry. 2014 Nov 18;14:307. doi: 10.1186/s12888-014-0307-7.
citation: Fyhn T, Ludvigsen K, Reme SE, Schaafsma F. A structured mixed method process evaluation of a randomized controlled trial of Individual Placement and Support (IPS). Implement Sci Commun. 2020 Oct 30;1:95. doi: 10.1186/s43058-020-00083-9. eCollection 2020.
citation: Reme SE, Monstad K, Fyhn T, Sveinsdottir V, Lovvik C, Lie SA, Overland S. A randomized controlled multicenter trial of individual placement and support for patients with moderate-to-severe mental illness. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2019 Jan 1;45(1):33-41. doi: 10.5271/sjweh.3753. Epub 2018 Aug 2.