BACKGROUND Unemployment remains a major consequence of schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses. This study assesses the effectiveness of the Individual Placement and Support model of supportive employment relative to usual psychosocial rehabilitation services for improving employment among inner-city patients with these disorders. METHODS Two hundred nineteen outpatients with severe m...

BACKGROUND Impaired awareness of hypoglycaemia (IAH) is common in adults with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and is a major risk factor for severe hypoglycaemia. Little is known about its effect on employment status. AIMS To examine the effect that IAH has on the employment status or employability of people with T1DM. METHODS A randomly selected cohort of adults of employment age with T1DM...

The exploratory quantitative study sought to develop an understanding about the relationships among disability, gender and employment in Northern Ghana. A total of 110 individuals with disabilities (20-60 years) from various disability groups participated in the study. The results indicate that many persons with disabilities are unemployed, the majority being women. Discrimination is cited as t...

The Great Recession had substantial effects on the labor market in the United States, as elsewhere. To what extent did secondary students' employment decline during this time? Which students are leaving the labor market? Are reductions in employment concentrated in particular jobs? To answer these questions, we use data from the Monitoring the Future study, an ongoing study of secondary student...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in cognitive impairments and persistent postconcussive symptoms that limit functional recovery, including return to work. We evaluated a 12 wk compensatory cognitive training intervention (Cognitive Symptom Management and Rehabilitation Therapy [CogSMART]) in the context of supported employment for Veterans with mild to moderate TBI. Participants were ran...

On behalf of the IDEFICS Consortium * Corresponding authors: Wencke Gwozdz ([email protected]) and Alfonso Sousa-Poza ([email protected]). This study was conducted as part of the IDEFICS study (http://www.idefics.eu). We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the European Community within the Sixth RTD Framework Programme under Contract No. 016181 (FOOD). Alfonso Sousa-Po...

When we were asked to consider co-editing a special issue for WORK focused on enabling employment of people who experience mental ill-health, the idea of partnership came to mind. Partnership has previously featured in a special issue by Shaw and Lindsay [1]; its focus was on the importance of collaboration with in the return-to-work process, featuring a key partnership with the InjuredWorkers ...

received additional monthly benefits because of the increase in the exempt amount. Further increases in the exempt amount would undoubtedly continue to be accompanied by even more rapid increases in the proportion of 4-quarter workers, including full-time workers, who would be able to draw benefits. One of the inequities of the retirement test before the 1954 amendments was the dual exemption g...

OBJECTIVE To see whether adverse relations between social class, health, and economic activity, observed between 1973 and 1993 and previously identified in a 1996 BMJ paper, were still apparent between 1994 and 2009 despite improvements in the general economic climate and overall population health. DESIGN Replication of repeated cross sectional analysis from the original paper, using the same...

Crowd employment platforms in Spain are a rather recent development. However, they have experienced remarkable growth during the economic crisis. The number of workers and clients has increased in the sectors already using crowd employment (including creative design), and the phenomenon has spread to other sectors such as housing and design, computing, book editing and translation (InfoCrowdsou...