Supported Employment for Refugees

Refugees Clinical Trial

— SER  

Official title:

Supported Employment for Refugees

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03629366
• Other study ID #: 811270
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: September 2020
• Source: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 66
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Refugees in the city of Bergen, Norway

• Expressed desire to work

• Able to have a simple conversation in Norwegian or English

Exclusion Criteria:

• No expressed desire to work

• Unable to have a simple conversation in Norwegian or English

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Refugees

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Supported Employment (SE)
Supported Employment
• Treatment as usual (TAU)
Treatment as usual

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	NORCE Norwegian Research Centre	Bergen

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS	Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Competitive employment (register data and log books)	Competitive employment will be assessed using register data from the State Register of Employers and Employees. Analyses will be carried out using both intention-to-treat and per protocol analyses. For per protocol analyses, log books from the service providers in the intervention group will be used.	12 months
Secondary	Acculturation (survey data)	Acculturation will be assessed using the Vancouver Index of Acculturation (VIA)	12 months
Secondary	Psychological distress (survey data)	Psychological distress will be assessed using the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL-25)	12 months
Secondary	Posttraumatic stress (survey data)	Posttraumatic stress will be assessed using the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)	12 months
Secondary	Global well-being (survey data)	Global well-being will be assessed using a 10-point Cantril Ladder Scale	12 months
Secondary	Health-related quality of life (survey data)	Health-related quality of life will be assessed using the Euro-Qol Visual Analog Scale	12 months