Level of evidence for work-focused interventions targeting young adults and accompanying messages
| Levels of evidence | Intervention, number of high (H) and medium (M) quality studies | Work outcome | Message* |
| What work-focused policies or programmes are most effective in supporting the employment transition of young adults with chronic disabling health condition? | |||
| Strong (positive) | Tailored supported employment (3H, 4M) | Competitive employment | Implementing tailoredsupported employment is recommended to help young adults with chronic disabling health conditions prepare and secure competitive employment. |
| Moderate (positive) | Tailored supported employment (2H, 1M) | Employment in any job | Implementing a supported employment should be considered to help young adults with chronic disabling health conditions prepare and secure employment in any job |
| Limited (positive) | Tailored supported employment (2M) | Hours worked | Not enough evidence from the scientific literature to guide current policies/practices |
| Limited (positive) | Tailored supported employment (2M) | Income | Not enough evidence from the scientific literature to guide current policies/practices |
| Insufficient | Tailored supported employment+self disclosure planning (1M) | Competitive employment | Not enough evidence from the scientific literature to guide current policies/practices |
| Tailored supported employment+autism spectrum disorder specific intervention (1M) | Competitive employment | ||
| Tailored supported employment+cognitive remediation (1M) | Competitive employment | ||
| Tailored supported employment+cognitive remediation (1M) | Job tenure | ||
| Youth transition demonstration enhanced employment services (1M) | Employment in any job | ||
| Youth transition demonstration enhanced employment services(1M) | Income | ||
| Technology-based job interview training (1M) | Competitive employment | ||
| Does the effectiveness of work-focused policies and programmes differ for young adults living with different chronic disabling health conditions? | |||
| Mental health | |||
| Moderate (positive) | Tailored supported employment (2H, 3M) | Competitive employment | Implementing a supported employment programme should be considered to help young people with mental health conditions secure competitive employment |
| Intellectual and learning | |||
| Limited (positive) | Tailored supported employment (1H, 1M) | Competitive employment | Not enough evidence from the scientific literature to guide current policies/practices |
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Do interventions and their effectiveness differ across the period of transition into the labour market? Insufficient | |||
*A majority of work-focused interventions identified in the systematic review were applied to young adults with mental health and intellectual/learning disabilities. Recommendations should be interpreted accordingly.
H, high-quality study; M, medium-quality study.