Supported employment: Meta-analysis and review of randomized controlled trials of individual placement and support

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 14; no. 2; p. e0212208
• Main Authors: Frederick, Donald E., VanderWeele, Tyler J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 20.02.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Clinical trials; Competition; Consumers; Cost analysis; Disabilities; Employment; Employment, Supported - economics; Female; Health services; Humans; Income; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - economics; Mental Disorders - therapy; Mental health; Mental Health - economics; Mental health care; Meta-analysis; Physical Sciences; Placement; Psychiatry; Quality of Life; Randomization; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Research and Analysis Methods; Social Sciences; Spinal cord injuries; Systematic review; Unemployment; Vocational rehabilitation; United States > US

Supported employment is a treatment whereby those with severe mental illness (or other disabilities) receive aid searching for competitive employment and mental health (or other) treatments concurrently. The most popular implementation of supported employment is individual placement and support (IPS...