Clinical trials: Unemployment
Unemployment
Evaluating the Efficacy of a Vocational Counseling Intervention to Improve Occupational Functioning and Employment Quality Among Veterans With Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Veterans living with mental health and substance use conditions are at risk of unemployment, which leads to significant health-related consequences.
- Trial name
- NCT07097376
- Testing
- Purposeful Pathways, Transitional Work
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 254 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Unemployment
Improving Vocational Outcomes of Veterans With Psychiatric Disorders: Career Counseling & Development
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) offers robust vocational programming that have helped countless Veterans obtain competitive employment; however, these services are not uniformly effective as recent data suggests that…
- Trial name
- NCT04698967
- Testing
- Purposeful Pathways, Transitional Work Experience
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 67 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Unemployment, HIV
Promoting Employment in Persons Living With HIV/AIDS
Many persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are unemployed, with estimates indicating rates as high as 60%. This study will examine the efficacy of reinforcing job-acquisition activities for improving employment outcomes in PLWHA…
- Trial name
- NCT03959826
- Testing
- activity contracting, contingency management for activity completion
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 144 people
- Sponsor
- UConn Health
Unemployment
IJobs - an Internet Intervention for the Unemployed
The current study aims to test the efficacy of iJobs, an online intervention for the unemployed. iJobs is an online adaptation of the JOBS program.
- Trial name
- iJobs (NCT05962554)
- Testing
- iJobs
- Where
- Romania
- Volunteers
- 176 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- West University of Timisoara
Unemployment, Mental Illness
Assessing the Effect of Distance Learning Vocational Rehabilitation on Employment Outcomes of Veterans With Psychiatric Illness and Histories of Legal Convictions
64,000 Veterans are released annually from jails and prisons. These Veterans have a weekly unemployment rate of up to 40-55%. However, many are unable to access traditional vocational rehabilitation, not to mention specialized…
- Conditions
- Unemployment, Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorder, Legal History
- Trial name
- NCT03331354
- Testing
- Distant vocational learning, Basic vocational services
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 136 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Unemployment, Hazardous Drinking
Interventions for Unemployed Hazardous Drinkers
Despite recent improvements in the US economy, unemployment remains a significant concern, and estimates indicate that one-third of unemployed persons drink at hazardous levels, adversely impacting their health and abilities to…
- Trial name
- NCT02559609
- Testing
- Contingency management for alcohol abstinence, Contingency management for completing job related activities, Job relelated activity contracting
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 240 people
- Sponsor
- UConn Health
Cocaine Dependence, Mental Disorder
Cost Effective Treatment for Dually Diagnosed Homeless
This randomized controlled trial examined whether an abbreviated treatment using abstinence contingency management for housing and work/training (CM, n=103) with cocaine dependent, non-psychotic, dually diagnosed homeless…
- Conditions
- Cocaine Dependence, Mental Disorder, Homelessness, Unemployment
- Trial name
- NCT00368524
- Testing
- contingency management and behavioral day treatment
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Unemployment
Feasibility and Acceptability of the Online JOBS Program
The aim of this study is to test the feasibility and acceptability of a web-based adaptation of the Jobs program (developed by Curran et al., 1999).
- Trial name
- iJobs (NCT04885400)
- Testing
- iJobs
- Where
- Romania
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- West University of Timisoara
Job Satisfaction, Unemployment
Remotely-Delivered Benefits Counseling for Service Connection Applicants
A significant portion of Veterans who apply for disability benefits have difficulty finding and sustaining employment, and are concerned that working for pay will jeopardize their receipt of service-connection benefits.
- Trial name
- NCT02677428
- Testing
- Remotely-Delivered Benefits Counseling, Control
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Unemployment
Supported Employment and Preventing Early Disability
The share of young workers falling into early work disability is an increasingly important problem in Norway. Early withdrawal or exclusion from the labor market leads to large individual and societal costs.
- Trial name
- SEED (NCT02375074)
- Testing
- Supported Employment, Traditional Vocational Rehabilitation
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 96 people
- Sponsor
- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
Unemployment
Pathways to Employment for the Long-term Unemployed
This project's aims are twofold (1) to uncover and define the underlying theories of change guiding competing active labor market programs (ALMP) in Sweden, and (2) to assess the relative effectiveness of these competing programs…
- Trial name
- NCT04247932
- Testing
- Active labor market intervention
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Göteborg University
Psychotic Disorders, Bipolar Disorder
Supported Employment: Motivational Enhancement for Entry and Outcome
The purpose of this study is to compare 6 monthly counseling sessions to 6 monthly information sessions on Veterans' decisions to (a) participate in vocational rehabilitation services and (b) become employed.
- Conditions
- Psychotic Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Unemployment
- Trial name
- NCT01041976
- Testing
- Adapted Motivational Interviewing (AMI), Support and Education for Recovery (SER)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 168 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Poverty, Unemployment
Pathways to Vocational Rehabilitation: Enhancing Entry and Retention
This study will examine the barriers and supports for entering and receiving work-related services for veterans with a serious mental illness.
- Trial name
- NCT00223834
- Testing
- single session of Motivational Interviewing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs