A Strength-Based Employment Maintenance Program for Individuals on the Autism Spectrum
For patients and families
In plain language
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: KF-STRIDE® Into Work!.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Autism. Basic parameters: 14 years — 26 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
The investigators are looking to evaluate how effective a training program that focuses on character strengths may be in improving job maintenance skills in young adults. The investigators are examining the effects of this intervention in young adults who feel they would like to help in improving their satisfaction with work, and in keeping their jobs.
Detailed description
Individuals with autism possess employable and valuable strengths and abilities. Unfortunately, despite these strengths, individuals with autism experience challenges in obtaining and maintaining employment. Traditionally, the majority of interventions designed for autism (including those focused on employment) focus on remediating deficits, without harnessing the strengths of those with autism. This deficit-based approach (i.e. to fix what is deficient in a person with autism) has triggered increasing criticism and dissatisfaction from the autism community. A growing shift toward strength-based training tools represent a holistic approach to treatment of autistic individuals by acknowledging and using their strengths to improve outcomes. To date, no strength-based employment programs have been examined in individuals with autism. Thus, in the current project, the investigators aim to develop and test a strength-based employment program. At Kessler Foundation, the investigators have developed a strength-based training tool: Kessler Foundation Strength Identification and Expression (KF-STRIDE®) which targets job interview skills by teaching individuals with autism to identify and express their personal strengths to a future employer. In the current proposal, the investigators aim to adapt this program to specifically target job maintenance skills.
Interventions
- Behavioral KF-STRIDE® Into Work!
Treatment group will receive 10 web based sessions of a strength-based training tool(once or twice a week). Sessions are approximately 60 minutes long.
Primary outcome measures
- Parent Report Employment Questionnaire [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Work Self-Efficacy Scale [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Strengths Self-Efficacy Scale [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Strengths Knowledge and Strengths Use Scale(SKUS) [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Flourishing(FS) [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Patients Global Impression of Change [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Intervention Effectiveness From Participant Point [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
Secondary outcome measures (8)
- Minnesota Work Satisfaction [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Job search [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Search for Work Self-Efficacy Scale [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale(CD-RISC) [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Voicemail Elicitation Task(VET)/ Email Elicitation Task(EET) [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Work Chat Assessment [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale(RSES) [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
- Twenty Statements Task [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate Post-test between weeks 7 and 8]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Lives in the United States of America
- Between the ages of 14-26
- Speaks English well and at a 4th grade reading level
Exclusion criteria
- Had a stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, or neurological injury or disease in the past(like brain tumor or epilepsy)
- Has a history of significant psychiatric illness(like schizophrenia or psychosis)
- Has uncontrolled seizures or other unstable medical complications
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Kessler Foundation — East Hanover
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06255925 · E-1199-22