Can therapy plus job help get people back to work faster?

NCT ID NCT04432129

Knowledge-focused Sponsor: Amager Hospital Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This study tested whether combining mental health treatment with job coaching helps people on sick leave due to anxiety, depression, stress, personality disorders, or functional disorders return to work. 900 participants in Denmark received either the combined service or usual care. The main goal was to see if they returned to work sooner.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.

What this could lead to: If successful, this approach could offer a practical way to help people with common mental disorders return to work more quickly.
What could go wrong: This is a completed study, so results are available but may not apply to other countries or healthcare systems. The intervention is complex and may be hard to replicate elsewhere.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

900 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Jun 2020

Finished

Oct 2022

Lead sponsor

Other sponsor

The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

18 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Accepted

You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.

Show the full entry requirements

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: \- Inclusion criteria * Anxiety, depression, stress, personality disorder or functional disorder diagnosed at a structured diagnostic interview based on the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview conducted by the IBBIS team * Sickness benefit recipient at baseline; on sick leave from job or unemployed for a minimum of four weeks * Resident in Copenhagen or Aarhus municipalities * Speak sufficient Danish to participate in interviews and complete questionnaires without an interpreter * Aged 18 or older * Has given informed written consent Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant * High degree of suicidal ideation * Dementia * Abuse of alcohol or other drugs to the degree that participation in therapy is not possible * A need for mental health treatment in secondary sector care * Unstable somatic condition that is too severe for participation in the project * The participant will not refrain from participating in other psychotherapeutic treatment outside the IBBIS project if the participant will be allocated to the experimental group

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

anxiety anxiety disorder Depression depressive disorder personality disorder Personality Disorders

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

Anxiety Common mental disorders Depression Functional disease present Personality disorders Stress

Can therapy plus job help get people back to work faster?

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