SynthesisSchizophrenia bulletin2011
Who benefits from supported employment: a meta-analytic study.
Synthesis in Schizophrenia bulletin, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 57 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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IPS-MA - A Randomized Clinical Trial Examining the Effect of a Modified IPS Intervention in Addition to Treatment as Usual Versus Treatment as Usual Alone for Individuals With Mood or Anxiety Disorders
Optimizing the Employment Outcomes for People Living in the Downtown Eastside
Who cites it
57 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Update on Individual Placement and Support for New Populations: A Meta-Analytic Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Supported employment interventions with people who have severe mental illness: Systematic mixed-methods umbrella review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of IPS Supported Employment for Young Adults with Mental Health Conditions.Administration and policy in mental health · 2023Pooled it
- Vocational Outcomes of the Individual Placement and Support Model in Subgroups of Diagnoses, Substance Abuse, and Forensic Conditions: A Systematic Review and Analysis of Pooled Original Data.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Pooled it
- Work-focused interventions that promote the labour market transition of young adults with chronic disabling health conditions: a systematic review.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Pooled it
- S3 guideline on psychosocial therapies in severe mental illness: evidence and recommendations.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2015Guideline
- Comparison of Black and White participants with severe mental illness in response to cognitive remediation as an augmentation of vocational rehabilitation.Schizophrenia research · 2023Trial
- Predictors of work and education among people with severe mental illness who participated in the Danish individual placement and support study: findings from a randomized clinical trial.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Trial
- Employment in Personality Disorders and the Effectiveness of Individual Placement and Support: Outcomes from a Secondary Data Analysis.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2020Trial
- Modifiable Predictors of Supported Employment Outcomes Among People With Severe Mental Illness.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2019Trial
- Randomized Controlled Trial of Adding Telephone Follow-Up to an Occupational Rehabilitation Program to Increase Work Participation.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2018Trial
- Persisting Barriers to Employment for Recently Housed Adults with Mental Illness Who Were Homeless.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2016Trial
- Work-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy and individual job support to increase work participation in common mental disorders: a randomised controlled multicentre trial.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2015Trial
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- RCT of a promising vocational/employment program for high-risk juvenile offenders.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2014Trial
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- The effectiveness of individual placement and support for people with mental illness new on social benefits: a study protocol.BMC psychiatry · 2013Trial
- The efficacy of supported employment for middle-aged and older people with schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2012Trial
- Recovery support services as part of the continuum of care for alcohol or drug use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Barriers and facilitators of employment in severe mental illness: an umbrella review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
aimsThis meta-analysis sought to identify which subgroups of clients with severe mental illness (SMI) benefited from evidence-based supported employment.
methodsWe used meta-analysis to pool the samples from 4 randomized controlled trials comparing the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment to well-regarded vocational approaches using stepwise models and brokered services. Meta-analysis was used to determine the magnitude of effects for IPS/control group differences within specific client subgroups (defined by 2 work history, 7 sociodemographic, and 8 clinical variables) on 3 competitive employment outcomes (obtaining a job, total weeks worked, and job tenure).
resultsThe findings strongly favored IPS, with large effect sizes across all outcomes: 0.96 for job acquisition, 0.79 for total weeks worked, and 0.74 for job tenure. Overall, 90 (77%) of the 117 effect sizes calculated for the 39 subgroups exceeded 0.70, and all 117 favored IPS.
conclusionsIPS produces better competitive employment outcomes for persons with SMI than alternative vocational programs regardless of background demographic, clinical, and employment characteristics.
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