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Employment Outcomes After In-House Vocational Training Programs for Individuals With Chronic Psychiatric Disorders
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating In-House Vocational Training Programs for Schizophrenia and Related Disorders and Bipolar and Related Disorders. Completed, enrolled 323 participants.
Detailed Summary
This multicenter retrospective cohort study examined the employment outcomes of the innovative in-house vocational training (IHVT) programs for individuals with chronic psychiatric disorders (CPD) and explored the program parameters significantly predictive of the outcomes. The IHVT programs were government-funded services offered to newly discharged inpatients or current outpatients with chronic psychiatric disorders (CPD) in four regional psychiatric hospitals of Taiwan. Each program was staffed with occupational therapists and paid or volunteer job coaches, along with cross-disciplinary support from psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, vocational specialists or others. Data were retrieved from 323 participants with CPD who completed the IHVT and the 1st-, 3rd-, and 6th-month follow-up interviews. The employment outcomes examined were the participants' employment rates at the 1st-, 3rd-, and 6th-month post-training as well as their sustainability of employment during the 6 months post-training.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
At the beginning of the IHVT programs, the job placement for each participant was determined jointly by the participant's interest, the demands of local job markets and the team evaluation. The programs covered 6 to 10 months in length, 5 days a week and 4 to 6 hours a day. The programs contained three sessions: (a) the work-related behavior training session, such as proper appearance, communication and self assertion, and workplace social skills, (b) the on-the-job skill training session where participants gained job-specific training and interventions from job coaches and occupational therapists, and (c) the life balance counseling session including individual and group counseling that aimed to enhance the participants' ability to tackle potential hardships and barriers to work.