Lori L Davis1,2, Tassos C Kyriakides3, Alina M Suris4, Lisa A Ottomanelli5,6, Lisa Mueller7,8, Pamela E Parker2, Sandra G Resnick9,10, Richard Toscano1, Alexandra A Scrymgeour11, Robert E Drake12. 1. Research and Development Service, Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 2. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. 3. Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut. 4. Department of Psychiatry, VA North Texas Health Care System and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. 5. Health Services Research and Development, Center of Innovation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, University of South Florida, Tampa. 6. Department of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, University of South Florida, Tampa. 7. Department of Psychology, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts. 8. Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 1 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts. 9. Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. 10. VISN 1 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, West Haven, Connecticut. 11. Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center, New Mexico Healthcare System, Albuquerque. 12. Individual Placement and Support Employment Center, Rockville Institute, Westat, Rockville, Maryland.
Abstract
Importance: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often interferes with a person's ability to obtain or sustain employment, which leads to premature exit from the labor force and reduced income. Objective: To determine whether individual placement and support (IPS)-supported employment is more effective than stepwise vocational rehabilitation involving transitional work assignments at helping veterans with PTSD attain steady, competitive employment. Design, Setting, and Participants: The Veterans Individual Placement and Support Toward Advancing Recovery (VIP-STAR) study was a prospective, multisite, randomized clinical trial that included 541 unemployed veterans with PTSD at 12 Veterans Affairs medical centers. Data were collected from December 23, 2013, to May 3, 2017. Intent-to-treat analysis was performed. Interventions: Individual placement and support is a supported employment intervention that rapidly engages people with disabilities in community job development to obtain work based on their individual job preferences. Transitional work is a stepwise vocational rehabilitation intervention that assigns people temporarily to noncompetitive jobs as preparation for competitive employment in the community. Main Outcomes and Measures: A priori hypotheses were that, compared with those in transitional work, more participants in the IPS group would become steady workers (primary) and earn more income from competitive jobs (secondary) over 18 months. Steady worker was defined as holding a competitive job for at least 50% of the 18-month follow-up period. Results: A total of 541 participants (n = 271 IPS; n = 270 transitional work) were randomized. Mean (SD) age was 42.2 (11) years; 99 (18.3%) were women, 274 (50.6%) were white, 225 (41.6%) were African American, and 90 (16.6%) were of Hispanic, Spanish, or Latino ethnicity. More participants in the IPS group achieved steady employment than in the transitional work group (105 [38.7%] vs 63 [23.3%]; odds ratio, 2.14; 95% CI, 1.46-3.14). A higher proportion of IPS participants attained any competitive job (186 [68.6%] vs 154 [57.0%]; P = .005) and had higher cumulative earnings from competitive jobs (median [interquartile range] $7290 [$23 174] in IPS vs $1886 [$17 167] in transitional work; P = .004). Conclusions and Relevance: This multisite trial demonstrated significantly greater effectiveness of IPS-supported employment over stepwise transitional work vocational rehabilitation for veterans living with chronic PTSD. The results provide supporting evidence for increasing access to IPS for veterans living with PTSD. Trial Registration: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01817712.
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Importance: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often interferes with a person's ability to obtain or sustain employment, which leads to premature exit from the labor force and reduced income. Objective: To determine whether individual placement and support (IPS)-supported employment is more effective than stepwise vocational rehabilitation involving transitional work assignments at helping veterans with PTSD attain steady, competitive employment. Design, Setting, and Participants: The Veterans Individual Placement and Support Toward Advancing Recovery (VIP-STAR) study was a prospective, multisite, randomized clinical trial that included 541 unemployed veterans with PTSD at 12 Veterans Affairs medical centers. Data were collected from December 23, 2013, to May 3, 2017. Intent-to-treat analysis was performed. Interventions: Individual placement and support is a supported employment intervention that rapidly engages people with disabilities in community job development to obtain work based on their individual job preferences. Transitional work is a stepwise vocational rehabilitation intervention that assigns people temporarily to noncompetitive jobs as preparation for competitive employment in the community. Main Outcomes and Measures: A priori hypotheses were that, compared with those in transitional work, more participants in the IPS group would become steady workers (primary) and earn more income from competitive jobs (secondary) over 18 months. Steady worker was defined as holding a competitive job for at least 50% of the 18-month follow-up period. Results: A total of 541 participants (n = 271 IPS; n = 270 transitional work) were randomized. Mean (SD) age was 42.2 (11) years; 99 (18.3%) were women, 274 (50.6%) were white, 225 (41.6%) were African American, and 90 (16.6%) were of Hispanic, Spanish, or Latino ethnicity. More participants in the IPS group achieved steady employment than in the transitional work group (105 [38.7%] vs 63 [23.3%]; odds ratio, 2.14; 95% CI, 1.46-3.14). A higher proportion of IPSparticipants attained any competitive job (186 [68.6%] vs 154 [57.0%]; P = .005) and had higher cumulative earnings from competitive jobs (median [interquartile range] $7290 [$23 174] in IPS vs $1886 [$17 167] in transitional work; P = .004). Conclusions and Relevance: This multisite trial demonstrated significantly greater effectiveness of IPS-supported employment over stepwise transitional work vocational rehabilitation for veterans living with chronic PTSD. The results provide supporting evidence for increasing access to IPS for veterans living with PTSD. Trial Registration: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01817712.
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