Increasing employment in ex-heroin addicts II: Methadone maintenance sample

Abstract

Sixty job-seeking methadone maintenance clients were assigned to either the Job-Seekers' Workshop (n=30), a treatment program designed to increase job interview and job-seeking skills, or to an information only control condition (n=30), in a factorial design where leaders were crossed with treatments. At a 3-month follow-up, more experimental subjects (52%) than controls (30%) were employed, and workshop participation produced superior ratings of job interview behavior. Although major comparisons tended to produce results below traditionally acceptable levels of significance, differences were consistently in the expected direction. Leader × Treatment Condition interactions were not found, although main effects for leader were noted. Subjects who reported no job history in the past 5 years did not find employment, regardless of treatment condition, but previous work history above this threshold was not related to employment.