cite: Poppen2017
author: Poppen, M., Lindstrom, L., Unruh, D., Khurana, A., & Bullis, M.
year: 2017
title: "Preparing youth with disabilities for employment: An analysis of vocational rehabilitation case services data"
publisher: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
uri: https://doi.org/10.3233/JVR-160857
pubtype: article
discipline: health

country: United States
period: 2003-2013
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targeting: explicit
group: disabled young adults
data: state administrative Oregon Rehabilitation Case Automation system (ORCA)

design: quasi-experimental
method: multivariate logistic regression; OLS
sample: 4443
unit: individual
representativeness: subnational
causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal

theory:
limitations: data gathered for service delivery not research may provide lower reliability; no measurement for service quality; no nationally representative sample lowers generalizability
observation:
  - intervention: training (vocational rehabilitation)
    institutional: 0
    structural: 1
    agency: 1
    inequality: disability; gender; age
    type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
    indicator: 0 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
    measures: employment
    findings: significantly decreased employment probability for women, having mental illness or traumatic brain injury as primary disability, multiple disabilities, interpersonal/self-care impediment, receiving social security benefits; youth-transition programme, more VR services significantly increased
    channels:
    direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos
    significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg

notes:
annotation: |
  A study looking at the effects of vocational rehabilitation on employment probabilities, as well as the factors influencing successful employment, in the United States.
  It finds that the primary factors negatively correlated with sucessful employment were for women in the sample, for having mental illness or traumatic brain injury as the primary disability, having multiple disabilities, an interpersonal or self-care impediment and receiving social security benefits.
  On the other hand, having participated in a youth-transition training programme, as well as making use of more vocational rehabilitation services, are correlated with an increased employment probability.
  It thereby highlights the gendered dimension of employment probabilities and points to a necessity to focus training and rehabilitation efforts along multiple dimensions.
  Some limitations of the study include its limited generalizability, having a sample located in a single state, as well as a dataest intended for service provision not academic pursuits possibly introducing unreliability in its data and not measuring service quality.