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Justin D Metcalfe1, Robert E Drake1
1Social Policy and Economic Research Practice, Westat, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Objective:
The Supported Employment Demonstration (SED) trial, which studied the effects of individual placement and support (IPS) among individuals initially denied Social Security Administration disability benefits for mental illness, reported racial-ethnic differences in IPS' effect on employment. Because of high rates of attrition in the SED, this finding warranted further study. The current reanalysis used a subsample with a directly observed measure of competitive employment and less attrition to try to corroborate the reported racial-ethnic differences.
Methods:
The authors compared self-reported employment (collected via telephone interviews) with observed employment (reported monthly by multidisciplinary teams) among a representative subsample (N=614) of the SED, stratified by race and ethnicity.
Results:
The observed competitive employment outcomes showed no significant racial-ethnic differences among those assigned to participate in IPS.
Conclusions:
Congruent with previous research, reanalysis based on more complete data and more rigorous outcome measurements implied an absence of racial-ethnic differences in IPS' effect on observed employment outcomes.
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