A Strength-Based Intervention to Improve Job Interview Skills in Young Adults in a Community Setting

NCT ID: NCT06380569

Last Updated: 2024-07-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-12-01

Brief Summary

The investigators are looking to evaluate how effective a strength-based intervention may be in improving job interview skills in young adults. The investigators are examining the effects of this intervention in young adults who may have difficulty with job interviews, and who may want to improve these skills.

Detailed Description

The investigators have developed KF-STRIDE, a promising web-based intervention which focuses on helping autistic transition age youth improve interview skills by 1) learning to identify their unique employable strengths, and 2) practice speaking about those strengths to potential employers in socially appropriate ways. The inability to express one's strengths to a potential employer can negatively affect interview performance and lead to difficulty with job obtainment. Importantly, KF-STRIDE is web-based, so it is highly scalable, and uses well-established principles of positive psychology. The investigators' pilot data evaluating KF-STRIDE in a lab-based setting indicates that after using KF-STRIDE, users experience increased knowledge of their personal strengths and improved job interview skills. However, KF-STRIDE's effectiveness in a real-world setting has not been established. Kessler Foundation (KF) Center for Autism Research will partner with Spectrum Works (or other community partner) (see letter of support) to implement and evaluate KF-STRIDE in a real-world setting. Spectrum Works is a non-profit organization which provides job training and employment opportunities to autistic youth. In the current study, KF-STRIDE will be implemented at Spectrum Works (or other community partner) by Spectrum Work staff members (trained by KF staff).

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Treatment Group

In this arm, participants would participate in in an intervention program that uses character strengths to improve job maintenance skills in young adults.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

KF-STRIDE®

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Treatment group will receive 10 web based sessions of a strength-based training tool (once or twice a week). Sessions are approximately 60 minutes long.

Control Group

In this arm, participants are services as usual and will participate in their regular activities.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

KF-STRIDE®

Treatment group will receive 10 web based sessions of a strength-based training tool (once or twice a week). Sessions are approximately 60 minutes long.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

Kessler Foundation Strength Identification and Expression

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Lives in the United States of America Between the ages of 14-26 Speaks English well and at a 4th grade reading level

Exclusion Criteria

Had a stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, or neurological injury or disease in the past(like brain tumor or epilepsy) Has a history of significant psychiatric illness(like schizophrenia or psychosis) Has uncontrolled seizures or other unstable medical complications

• Minimum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 26 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Kessler Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Helen Genova, Ph. D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Kessler Foundation

Locations

Kessler Foundation

East Hanover, New Jersey, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Helen Genova, Ph. D.

Role: CONTACT

hgenova@kesslerfoundation.org

973-324-8390

Katarina Reduzzi, MA

Role: CONTACT

kreduzzi@kesslerfoundation.org

Facility Contacts

Helen Genova, Ph. D.

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

E-1139-21 Community Setting

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id