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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
PHASE2
326 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
1997-01-31
2001-12-31
Brief Summary
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This study is designed to compare the employment situations of a group of people receiving a two-part intervention and a group that is not receiving the intervention. The intervention consists of training sessions to help prospective VR clients with ARMD successfully enter and complete the VR program, and training sessions for a randomly selected group of VR professionals to help them serve VR clients with ARMD more effectively.
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Detailed Description
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Some researchers think that people with work disability due to ARMD seeking vocational rehabilitation (VR) services who are exposed to an "agency access intervention" are more likely to gain entrance to the VR system and be determined eligible for services than are similar people not exposed to the intervention. Further, they think that people with work disability due to ARMD who are determined to be eligible for VR services, and who are exposed to an "agency enhancement intervention" while receiving services, are more likely to become and remain employed upon completion of the VR program than are similar people not exposed to the intervention.
The research design is a randomized, controlled, field experiment comparing the vocational outcomes of a group receiving a two-part intervention to those not receiving the intervention. The design allows us to evaluate separately each component of the intervention. The intervention consists of training sessions to help prospective VR clients with ARMD successfully enter and complete the VR program, and training sessions for a randomly selected group of VR professionals to help them serve VR clients with ARMD more effectively.
If this intervention strategy can significantly increase (1) VR utilization rates; (2) post-service employment rates; and (3) length of post-service employment in a previously underserved group with historically poor VR outcomes, it could have a significant role in reducing the immense impact, nationally, of work disability due to ARMD.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Enrollment Intervention
The intervention consists of training sessions to help prospective VR clients with ARMD successfully enter and complete the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program, and training sessions for a randomly selected group of VR professionals to help them serve VR clients with ARMD more effectively.
Vocational counseling intervention
Reading materials for control participants
Usual Care
Standard of care
No education or behavioral intervention
Interventions
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Vocational counseling intervention
Reading materials for control participants
Standard of care
No education or behavioral intervention
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Previously employed
* Currently unemployed due to musculoskeletal disability
* Feel capable of work
* Want to work
Exclusion Criteria
* Unable to work
18 Years
55 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
NIH
University of Alabama at Birmingham
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Richard S. Maisiak, PhD, MSPH
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Locations
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Countries
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References
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White M, Maisiak R, Overman L, Paolone F, and Fine P. Development of a work motivation scale for predicting return to work of arthritis patients. Arthritis and Rheumatism,44(9):S165,2001.
M White, R Maisiak, P Fine and K Straaton. Factors associated with low vocational capability in persons with musculoskeletal work disability. Abstract in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 42(9):S222, 1999.
R Maisiak, P Fine, M White and K Straaton. Barriers to participation in state-federal vocational rehabilitation servies for persons with musculoskeletal disability Abstract in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 42(9):S222, 1999.
White M, Maisiak R, Overman L, Paolone F, and Fine P. Increased enrollment of persons unemployed due to musculoskeletal disability to vocational rehabilitation services. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 43(9):S285, 2000.
Maisiak R, White W, Overman L, Paolone F, and P Fine. Health status (SF-36) barriers to return to work for persons with musculoskeletal disability. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 43(9):S285,2000.
Maisiak R, White W, Overman L, Paolone F, and P Fine. Improved return to work for arthritis patients in a supplementary state-federal vocational rehabilitation program. Arthritis and Rheumatism,44(9):S211,2001.
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