Who benefits from individual placement and support? A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Individual placement and support (IPS) is an evidence-based service model to support people with mental disorders in obtaining and sustaining competitive employment. IPS is increasingly offered to a broad variety of service users. In this meta-analysis we analysed the relative effectiveness of IPS for different subgroups of service users both based on the diagnosis and defined by a range of clinical, functional and personal characteristics.

Methods

We included randomised controlled trials that evaluated IPS for service users diagnosed with any mental disorder. We examined effect sizes for the between-group differences at follow-up for three outcome measures (employment rate, job duration and wages), controlling for methodological confounders (type of control group, foll

SUBMITTER: de Winter L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9281491 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature