NDLI: A randomised controlled trial of a supported employment programme on vocational outcomes for individuals with chronic mental illness

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A randomised controlled trial of a supported employment programme on vocational outcomes for individuals with chronic mental illness

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Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	The functional deficits seen in individuals with long-term mental illness often result in high rates of unemployment in this group. A variety of vocational rehabilitation programmes such as hospital-based workshop training, vocational guidance and counselling, psychosocial rehabilitation, and sheltered workshops have been developed and implemented for this group over the past half century. The results of these programmes are far from satisfactory. Supported employment (SE) has been developed to help people with disabilities participate as much as possible in the competitive labour market. Based on consistent positive findings from several randomised controlled trials, SE is now considered an evidencebased practice.1 Supported employment was introduced to Hong Kong in 1994, and has been expanded to meet the vocational goals of patients with a variety of disabilities. Along with the Hospital Authority, a total of 44 government-funded units are providing SE services for disabled persons. Despite the extensive use of SE in Hong Kong, its effectiveness and applicability in the local context has not been explored. A local study on the provision of an individualised SE programme for individuals with mental illness has been conducted,2 but it adopted a prepost design and lacked a control group for comparison. The current evidence suggesting that SE is more effective than conventional vocational rehabilitation (CVR) programmes is only generalisable to the United States. It remains unclear whether SE is more effective than other vocational rehabilitation programmes in countries with different economic and welfare systems.
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