author: Shepherd-Banigan, M., Pogoda, T. K., McKenna, K., Sperber, N., & Van Houtven, C. H. year: 2021 title: "Experiences of VA vocational and education training and assistance services: Facilitators and barriers reported by veterans with disabilities" publisher: In Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal uri: https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000437 pubtype: article discipline: psychology country: United States period: 2018 maxlength: targeting: explicit group: disabled data: interviews design: qualitative method: semi-structured interviews sample: 26 unit: individual representativeness: subnational, local causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal theory: limitations: sample restricted to veterans with caregiver; data provide little evidence for supported employment efficacy observation: - intervention: training institutional: 0 structural: 0 agency: 1 inequality: age; disability type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative measures: rtw findings: vocational and educational services help strengthen individual agency and motivation; potential disability payment loss may impede skills development efforts channels: primary barriers health problems, programmes not accomodating disabled veteran student needs; primary facilitator financial assistance for education and individual motivation direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos significance: # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg notes: annotation: | A qualitative study on the significance of vocational and educational training provided for disabled veterans in the United States. It finds that both the vocational and educational services help strengthen individual agency, autonomy and motivation but impacts can be dampened if the potential for disability payment loss due to the potential for job acquisition impedes skill development efforts. The primary barriers of return to work efforts identified are an individual's health problems as well as various programmes not acommodating the needs of disabled veteran students, while the primary Facilitators identified are financial assistance provided for education as well as strengthened individual agency through motivation. Some limitations include a possible bias of accommodations required through the sample being restricted to veterans with a caregiver, which often signals more substantial impairments than for a larger training-participatory sample, as well as the data not being able to identify the impact of supported employment.