Trial reportPsychological medicine2020
Enhancing return to work or school after a first episode of schizophrenia: the UCLA RCT of Individual Placement and Support and Workplace Fundamentals Module training.
Trial report in Psychological medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04040829 (Cognitive Remediation and Supported Education in Psychotic Disorders), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Cognitive Remediation and Supported Education in Psychotic Disorders: a Randomized Controlled Trial on the Efficacy and the Best Predictors of Academic Functioning
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
- Update on Individual Placement and Support for New Populations: A Meta-Analytic Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Measures of Social and Occupational Function in Early Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 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
- Systematic Review of the Impact on Return to Work of Return-to-Work Coordinators.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Pooled it
- Vocational Interventions to Improve Employment Participation of People with Psychosocial Disability, Autism and/or Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Efficacy of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) on Employment, Education, and Training in Young Adults With Early Psychosis-A Randomized Controlled Trial.Brain and behavior · 2025Trial
- Supporting return to work after psychiatric hospitalization-A cluster randomized study (RETURN-study).European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Trial
- Baseline characteristics of a diagnostically defined early psychosis cohort entering supported employment and education: findings from the SEEearly trial.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Social inclusion of people with severe mental illness: a review of current practices, evidence and unmet needs, and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
- Psychosocial Management of First-Episode Psychosis and Schizophrenia: Synopsis of the US Department of Veterans Affairs and US Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guidelines.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- [Long-term courses in schizophrenia : A review of current results and developments].Der Nervenarzt · 2025Review
- Intrinsic motivation predicts cognitive and functional gains during coordinated specialty care for first-episode schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- Individual placement and support programmes for young adults: Where are they and whom do they serve?Early intervention in psychiatry · 2023Article
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- Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for High School Aged Youth: Provider Perspective and Practice.Community mental health journal · 2023Article
- The Role of Disability Benefits as an Environmental Factor Contributing to Negative Symptoms.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Peer Academic Supports for Success (PASS) for College Students with Mental Illness: Open Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Value-directed remembering in first-episode schizophrenia.Neuropsychology · 2022Article
- Interventions to improve social circumstances of people with mental health conditions: a rapid evidence synthesis.BMC psychiatry · 2022Review
- Preferences for WeChat-Based and Hospital-Based Family Intervention Among Caregivers of People Living with Schizophrenia.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundThis study evaluated in a rigorous 18-month randomized controlled trial the efficacy of an enhanced vocational intervention for helping individuals with a recent first schizophrenia episode to return to and remain in competitive work or regular schooling.
methodsIndividual Placement and Support (IPS) was adapted to meet the goals of individuals whose goals might involve either employment or schooling. IPS was combined with a Workplace Fundamentals Module (WFM) for an enhanced, outpatient, vocational intervention. Random assignment to the enhanced integrated rehabilitation program (N = 46) was contrasted with equally intensive clinical treatment at UCLA, including social skills training groups, and conventional vocational rehabilitation by state agencies (N = 23). All patients were provided case management and psychiatric services by the same clinical team and received oral atypical antipsychotic medication.
resultsThe IPS-WFM combination led to 83% of patients participating in competitive employment or school in the first 6 months of intensive treatment, compared with 41% in the comparison group (p < 0.005). During the subsequent year, IPS-WFM continued to yield higher rates of schooling/employment (92% v. 60%, p < 0.03). Cumulative number of weeks of schooling and/or employment was also substantially greater with the IPS-WFM intervention (45 v. 26 weeks, p < 0.004).
conclusionsThe results clearly support the efficacy of an enhanced intervention focused on recovery of participation in normative work and school settings in the initial phase of schizophrenia, suggesting potential for prevention of disability.
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