NCT05824117

Enhancing Educational and Vocational Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults With Early Psychosis Through Supported Employment and Education.

Enhancing Educational and Vocational Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults With Early Psychosis Through Supported Employment and Education (SEE): A Randomized Controlled Trial. Acronym: SEEearly

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 184 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Psychotic disorders often develop a chronic course with devastating consequences for individuals, families, and societies usually with first onset during adolescence and early adulthood. Early intervention programs, which provide intensive, phase specific, psychosocial, and pharmacological treatment for people in the first five years after the initial psychotic episode (early psychosis) can significantly improve the outcome and are therefore strongly recommended in national and international guidelines. However, most early intervention programs in people with early psychosis still focus on improving symptoms and relapse prevention, rather than targeting educational and vocational recovery, although engagement in work and education is a high priority for young people with early psychosis and reduces the social disability associated with the disorder. The aim of the present study is to explore the effects of Supported Employment and Education (SEE) following the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model in people with early psychosis. The investigators compare treatment as usual (TAU) in an outpatient psychiatric setting to TAU plus SEE.

Conditions

• Persistent Delusional Disorder
• Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder, Unspecified
• Schizophrenia
• Schizoaffective Disorder
• Other Nonorganic Psychotic Disorders
• Unspecified Nonorganic Psychosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Individual Placement and Support (IPS)	IPS is an evidence-based practice for helping people with severe mental illness to gain and maintain competitive employment or/and mainstream education with nine well defined key principles that can be reliably assessed by the IPS Fidelity Scale for Young Adults. Interventions range from engagement techniques (i.e. motivational interviewing) to individualized education/employment searches and from experience-based educational/employment assessment to benefits in counseling/work incentives planning.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-18
• Primary completion: 2024-12-31
• Completion: 2025-03-31
• First posted: 2023-04-21
• Last updated: 2023-04-21

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: Germany