Long-term follow-up and benefit-cost analysis of the Jobs Program: a preventive intervention for the unemployed

Article Abstract:

Results are reported from a 2 1/2 year follow-up of respondents who participated in a randomized field experiment that included the Jobs Program, a preventive intervention for unemployed persons. The intervention was intended to prevent poor mental health and loss of motivation to seek reemployment and to promote high-quality reemployment. The results of the long-term follow-up were consistent with those found 1 and 4 months after intervention (Caplan, Vinokur, Price, & van Ryn, 1989). The results demonstrate the continued beneficial effects of the intervention on monthly earnings, level of employment, and episodes of employer and job changes. These findings are supported by a benefit-cost analysis, which demonstrates large net benefits of the intervention to the participants and to the federal and state government programs that supported the project. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Psychological aspects, Unemployment, Mental illness, Mental disorders, Unemployed workers

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Increasing automobile seat belt use: an intervention emphasizing risk susceptibility

Article Abstract:

A program designed to increase automobile seat belt usage emphasizes the link between personal injury in an automobile accident and failure to use seat belts. Following five weeks of observed seat belt usage, a week of intensive intervention techniques that included dashboard sticker reminders to use seat belts, signs in parking areas and signs in cafeteria areas resulted in a 31 percent increase in seat belt usage. The observations and testing were conducted at a corporation's headquarters offices. Seat belt usage statistics also showed increases six months after the intervention techniques had been employed. Reasons for the success of the intervention techniques used are suggested by the research.

Case studies, Accidents, Automobiles, Safety education, Seat belts

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