TY - JOUR

T1 - Job maintenance by supported employment

T2 - an overview of the "Supported Employment Plus" trial

AU - Kawohl, Wolfram

AU - Moock, Joern

AU - Heuchert, Sandra

AU - Roessler, Wulf

N1 - Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Nils-Torge Telle for his strong support. Many thanks to Neele T. Garbers, Kathrin Hornung, Katrin Leder, and Nicola Niemeyer who worked as job coaches in the project and to Katrin Blanke and Bettina Baertsch for helping to establish Supported Employment in Lüneburg. This study was funded by the European Funds for Regional Development and by the Federal State of Lower Saxony within the framework of the Innovation Incubator at the Leuphana University of Luneburg. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2015 Kawohl, Moock, Heuchert and Rössler.

PY - 2015/5/26

Y1 - 2015/5/26

N2 - The number of days of absence from work associated with mental illness has risen dramatically in the past 10 years in Germany. Companies are challenged by this issue and seek help for the physical and mental health of their employees. Supported Employment concepts such as the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model have been designed to bring jobless persons with mental disorders back to work. In the randomized, controlled SEplus trial, a modified IPS-approach is tested concerning its ability to shorten times of sick leave of persons with mental distress or a mental disorder and to prevent them from losing their job. The trial is outlined in this study protocol.

AB - The number of days of absence from work associated with mental illness has risen dramatically in the past 10 years in Germany. Companies are challenged by this issue and seek help for the physical and mental health of their employees. Supported Employment concepts such as the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model have been designed to bring jobless persons with mental disorders back to work. In the randomized, controlled SEplus trial, a modified IPS-approach is tested concerning its ability to shorten times of sick leave of persons with mental distress or a mental disorder and to prevent them from losing their job. The trial is outlined in this study protocol.

KW - supported employment

KW - job maintenance

KW - individual placement and support

KW - mental health

KW - sickness absence

KW - Health sciences

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021101664&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00140

DO - 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00140

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 3

JO - Frontiers in Public Health

JF - Frontiers in Public Health

SN - 2296-2565

M1 - 140

ER -