NCT03629366

Supported Employment for Refugees

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Humanitarian crises related to the Syrian conflict have led to a large increase in refugees in Europe in the recent years. There is need for effective approaches to increase labor market participation among refugees, and to reduce the impact of unfavorable exclusion mechanisms among this group. The Supported Employment for Refugees (the SER-trial) is a randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of Supported Employment (SE) for newly arrived refugees who are involved in the mandatory introduction program provided for all refugees in Norway. SE is an intervention that has proved effective in promoting competitive employment among patients with severe mental illness in over twenty international randomized controlled trials, and is currently being evaluated for various new patient groups in ongoing trials. The SER-trial is however the first trial to evaluate the effect of SE for the target group of refugees (who may or may not have mental illness).

Conditions

• Refugees

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Supported Employment (SE)	Supported Employment
BEHAVIORAL	Treatment as usual (TAU)	Treatment as usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-01
• Primary completion: 2020-04-30
• Completion: 2020-05-30
• First posted: 2018-08-14
• Last updated: 2020-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway