| Autor: |
Matthew J. Smith, Kari Sherwood, Connie Sung, Ed-Dee Williams, Brittany Ross, Sagun Sharma, Apara Sharma, Meghan Harrington, Cheryl Brown, David Telfer, Justine Bond, Sen Toda, David Kearon, Shelby Morrow, Temple Lovelace, Sarah Dababnah, Shanna K. Kattari, Sandra Magaña, Tikia Watkins, Caleb Liggett, Edwina Riddle, Justin D. Smith, Kara Hume, Tamara Dawkins, Mary Baker-Ericzén, Shaun M. Eack, Brandi Sinco, Jane K. Burke-Miller, Dale Olsen, Jeff Elkins, Laura Humm, Chris Steacy |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, Vol 34, Iss , Pp 101153- (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2451-8654 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.conctc.2023.101153 |
| Popis: |
Autistic transition-age youth experience high rates of unemployment and underemployment, in part due to the social challenges they may face when having conversations in the workplace. In an effort to help enhance conversational abilities in the workplace, our collaborative team partnered to develop WorkChat: A Virtual Workday. Specifically, our team of scientists, community partners, and diversity and inclusion experts participated in a community-engaged process to develop WorkChat using iterative feedback from autistic transition-age youth and their teachers. With initial development complete, this study reports on the protocol that our collaborative team developed, reviewed, and approved to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the real-world effectiveness and initial implementation process outcomes of WorkChat when integrated into post-secondary pre-employment transition services (Pre-ETS). Our aims are to: 1) evaluate whether services-as-usual in combination with WorkChat, compared to services-as-usual with an attention control, enhances social cognition and work-based social ability (between pre- and post-test); reduces anxiety about work-based social encounters (between pre- and post-test), and increases sustained employment by 9-month follow-up; 2) evaluate whether social cognitive ability and work-based social ability mediate the effect of WorkChat on sustained employment; and 3) conduct a multilevel, mixed-method process evaluation of WorkChat implementation. |
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