Trial reportPsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2014
Work outcomes after benefits counseling among veterans applying for service connection for a psychiatric condition.
Trial report in Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00715650 (Benefits Counseling to Preserve Function Among Disability Applicants), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Benefits Counseling to Preserve Function Among Disability Applicants
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions for obtaining and maintaining employment in adults with severe mental illness, a network meta-analysis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Brief Counseling for Veterans with Musculoskeletal Disorder, Risky Substance Use, and Service Connection Claims.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2019Trial
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- Access to Pain Care From Compensation Clinics: A Relational Coordination Perspective.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2020Article
- Veterans' compensation claims beliefs predict timing of PTSD treatment use relative to compensation and pension exam.PloS one · 2018Article
- Iraq/Afghanistan-era Veterans with back pain: Characteristics and predictors of compensation and pension award.Journal of rehabilitation research and development · 2016Article
- Examination of Veterans Affairs disability compensation as a disincentive for employment in a population-based sample of Veterans under age 65.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2013Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study's objective was to determine the efficacy of benefits counseling in a clinical trial. There has been concern that disability payments for psychiatric disorders reduce incentives for employment and rehabilitation. Benefits counseling, with education about opportunities to work and the financial implications of work on receipt of disability benefits, may counter these disincentives.
methodsThis single-blind, six-month randomized clinical trial enrolled 84 veterans who had applied for service-connected compensation for a psychiatric condition. Veterans were randomly assigned to either four sessions of benefits counseling or of a control condition involving orientation to the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs health care system and services. Days of paid work and work-related activities were assessed at follow-up visits by using a timeline follow-back calendar.
resultsVeterans assigned to benefits counseling worked for pay for significantly more days than did veterans in the control group (effect size=.69, p<.05), reflecting an average of three more days of paid employment during the 28 days preceding the six-month follow-up. Benefits counseling was associated with increased use of mental health services, but this correlation did not mediate the effect of benefits counseling on working.
conclusionsBarriers to employment associated with disability payments are remediable with basic counseling. More research is needed to understand the active ingredient of this counseling and to strengthen the intervention.
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