Pathways to Vocational Rehabilitation: Enhancing Entry and Retention

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Poverty, Unemployment

In brief

This study will examine the barriers and supports for entering and receiving work-related services for veterans with a serious mental illness. It will also determine the effectiveness of a brief motivational interviewing intervention designed to help veterans receive these services.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00223834

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

200

Starts

2005-03-01

Expected to finish

2007-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2008-03-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Current diagnosis of serious mental illness, present for at least 2 years
• Is unemployed or underemployed
• Current episode of un/underemployment is at least 3 months
• Enrolled to receive services at study site

You may not qualify if…

• Over the age of 55
• Non-English speaker
• Mini-Mental score of less than 20
• Planning to move more than 30 miles from study site in the next 18 months
• Previously screened for this study
• Currently or previously involved in other research studies which may impact variables relevant to this study

Where it is running

• Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford — Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

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