'Placement budgets' for supported employment -- improving competitive employment for people with mental illness: study protocol of a multicentre randomized controlled trial

This study will show whether the effectiveness of IPS can be increased by the new concept of limited placement budgets. It will also be examined whether competitive employment leads in the long term to an improvement of mental illness, to a transfer of the psychiatric support system to private and vocational networks, to an increase in financial independence, to a reduction of perceived and internalized stigma, and to an increase in quality of life and job satisfaction of the patient. In addition, factors connected with fast competitive employment and holding that job down in the long term are being examined (motivation, stigmatization, social and financial situation).Trial registerISRCTN89670872. (Source: BMC Psychiatry - Latest articles)

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