Effects of Participant Characteristics

people with better work histories;
people with fewer symptoms (positive or negative);
younger people;
people with better self-reported functioning;
people with no health problems or co-occurring disabilities;
people who were not receiving SSI or SSDI;
people with diagnoses other than schizophrenia.

Enhanced models worked better REGARDLESS OF CONSUMERS’ CHARACTERISTICS.

Transcript

Here’s what we found regarding the effects of being in the enhanced intervention vs. the comparison programs. Even when we controlled for participant characteristics, in both the enhanced and comparison groups, people’s employment outcomes improved over time. This is not a big surprise, we saw that in the graphs. But in addition, those in the enhanced group had better outcomes than those in the comparison groups. So those client background features did not affect the superiority of the enhanced condition participants. Not only that, but the advantage of the enhanced group participants increased over time relative to the control group. So, not only did the enhanced groups do better, but also the difference grew over time.

Overall, however, even though people did better over time, particularly those in the enhanced group, most of the improvement in outcomes occurred earlier in the 24-month period, rather than later. In other words, the biggest difference between the enhanced and control participants’ outcomes occurred in the earlier rather than the later months of the study.

So, now that we know how the enhanced interventions worked, what about the effects of participant characteristics? After controlling for the effects of time and study condition, some participant characteristics still influenced employment outcomes. Most consistently, those with better outcomes were

people with better work histories;
people with fewer symptoms (positive or negative);
younger people;
people with better self-reported functioning;
people with no health problems or co-occurring disabilities;
people who were not receiving SSI or SSDI;
people with diagnoses other than schizophrenia.

Even though participants with some characteristics did better than others, the enhanced models worked better REGARDLESS OF CONSUMERS’ CHARACTERISTICS.