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SMI (schizophrenia, affective schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). Studies, whose population<br />
consisted of people with low <strong>in</strong>tellectual level/mentally retardation, or abuse of substances as first<br />
and only diagnosis, were excluded. The studies <strong>in</strong>cluded vary with respect to the follow-up period<br />
(from 5 months to 4 years), losses, diagnosis and age (19-46 years).<br />
The systematic review elaborated by Crowther et al 165 , which <strong>in</strong>cludes 18 RCTs 168-185 , is<br />
designed to assess the efficiency on employment of pre-vocational tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g (PVT) and sheltered<br />
employment (SE), compared with each other and with standard treatment (ST).<br />
With respect to people with SMI and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, data have been found<br />
<strong>in</strong> the NICE Bipolar Disorder <strong>CPG</strong> 7 that <strong>in</strong>clude data from the NICE Schizophrenia <strong>CPG</strong> 8 and add<br />
another 3 RCTs that are useful due to the specific nature of the studies, but lack applicability to the<br />
subgroup of SMI with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, as they <strong>in</strong>clude SMI with little representation<br />
of this diagnosis <strong>in</strong> the samples (5%-43%).<br />
Bond et al 186 per<strong>for</strong>m an SR, which <strong>in</strong>cludes 11 RCTs on sheltered employment studies<br />
which are very faithful to the Individual Placement and Support, (IPS) on patients with SMI, <strong>in</strong><br />
order to assess their efficacy <strong>in</strong> achiev<strong>in</strong>g competitive employment.<br />
Mueser et al 187 per<strong>for</strong>med a RCT where the relationships between preferences, satisfaction<br />
and ma<strong>in</strong>tenance of employment are exam<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> a sample of 204 patients with SMI. The patients<br />
were randomised between IPS, a psychiatric rehabilitation programme and standard treatment.<br />
The patients assigned to the IPS programme, those who obta<strong>in</strong>ed employment that co<strong>in</strong>cided with<br />
their prior preferences with respect to the type of work desired, obta<strong>in</strong>ed higher levels of satisfaction<br />
and longer duration of the employment. This relationship was not observed <strong>in</strong> the other two<br />
programmes.<br />
In the RCT (n = 40) developed by McGurk et al. 188 <strong>in</strong> people with SMI and with a prior history<br />
of labour failure, they were assigned randomly either to a sheltered employment programme<br />
or to another employment programme fostered with cognitive tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g. The labour results were<br />
measured after 2 to 3 years. The results obta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong>dicate that patients <strong>in</strong> the sheltered employment<br />
programme with cognitive tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g obta<strong>in</strong>ed greater access to employment (69% vs. 14%),<br />
ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed more jobs, worked more weeks, more hours and with better salaries than patients who<br />
were only offered sheltered employment (p