SynthesisJournal of occupational rehabilitation2025
Preference for Competitive Employment in People with Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Proportions.
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- The role of healthcare providers in sustainable return-to-work for individuals with common mental disorders.British medical bulletin · 2025Review
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- [What does an Ideal Day Centre Look Like? The User Perspective on Day-Structuring Programmes for People with Mental Illness].Psychiatrische Praxis · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of Independent Reviewer-Rated and Self-Rated Fidelity Scores in Individual Placement and Support Programs: Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Article
- Mapping the Growth of Individual Placement and Support Services in Norway.International journal of public health · 2025Article
- [Individual placement and support in mental health services: evaluation of routine clinical data using a retrospective chart review].Der Nervenarzt · 2024Article
- Experiences of individuals with serious mental disorders in regular employment through the Individual Placement and Support model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeThe inclusion of people with mental disorders (MD) into competitive employment has become an important political and therapeutic goal. The present paper investigates meta-analytically to which extent people with MD who were unemployed or on sick leave due to MD prefer to work in a competitive job environment.
methodsFor this systematic review and meta-analysis of proportions, we searched Medline, PsycInfo, Cinahl, Google Scholar, and reference lists for peer-reviewed publications from 1990 to Dec 2023, which provided data on the job preferences of people with MD. Two authors independently conducted full-text screening and quality assessments. Pooled proportions of job preferences were calculated with a random-effects meta-analysis of single proportions, and subgroup analyses were performed to examine characteristics associated with job preferences.
resultsWe included 30 studies with a total of 11,029 participants in the meta-analysis. The overall proportion of participants who expressed a preference for competitive employment was 0.61 (95%-CI: 0.53-0.68; I
conclusionMost people with MD want to work competitively. More efforts should be given to preventive approaches such as support for job retention. Interventions should be initiated at the beginning of the psychiatric treatment when the motivation to work is still high, and barriers are lower. TRAIL REGISTRATION: The protocol is published in the Open Science registry at https://osf.io/7dj9r.
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