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Helping psychiatrically impaired patients achieve and maintain competitive employment can assist meaningful recovery and individual self-worth and reduce disability costs and psychiatric treatment expenses. Researchers have now reported 5-year follow-up results of a Swiss study randomizing 100 individuals with severe mental illnesses to supported employment or traditional vocational rehabilitation.
Participants had persistent impairments in role, social or independent living, and self-care; no recent substance disorder or disabling physical conditions; and significant underemployment at baseline (65% men, mean age, 34; mean hospitalizations, 1.7; moderate-serious symptoms on a standardized scale assessing function). Supported employment incl…