TABLE 2.
Job preparation practices and IPS services engagement of study participants, by groupa
| IPS as usual (N=36) |
IPS+VR-JIT (N=54) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | N | % | Median | Range | N | % | Median | Range |
| IPS with employment specialistb | ||||||||
| Completed mock interview | 17 | 47 | 9 | 17 | ||||
| N of mock interviews completed (M±SD) | 1.8±1.2 | 1.0 | 1–5 | 1.4 ±.7 | 1.0 | 1–3 | ||
| Minutes of mock interviewing (M±SD)c | 24.3±14.3 | 22.5 | 5–60 | 19.4±15.5 | 15.0 | 5–45 | ||
| Discussed interview skills | 22 | 69 | 34 | 65 | ||||
| Minutes discussing interview skills (M±SD)d | 40.2±26.5 | 40.0 | 10–105 | 38.0±35.8 | 30 | 2–165 | ||
| Discussed VR-JIT interviewing progresse | 28 | 54 | ||||||
| Minutes discussing VR-JIT interviewing progress (M±SD) | 38.8±41.9 | 25.5 | 1–160 | |||||
| VR-JIT engagement (M±SD)f | ||||||||
| Sessions completed | 4.7±2.1 | 4.5 | 1–10 | |||||
| Virtual interviews completed | 8.8±4.2 | 10.0 | 1–15 | |||||
| Minutes of virtual interviewing | 177.8±102.4 | 174.5 | 9–432 | |||||
| Virtual interview scoreg | 78.7±11.6 | 80.9 | 46–96 | |||||
| Minutes of e-Learning | 14.4±14.1 | 13.0 | 0–80 | |||||
IPS as usual, received standard individual placement and support (IPS) services; IPS+VR-JIT, received IPS standard services plus Virtual Reality Job Interview Training (VR-JIT).
Employment specialist notes regarding job interview preparation were missing for four IPS-as-usual participants and two IPS+VR-JIT participants. Nine IPS+VR-JIT participants completed one to three mock interviews with their employment specialists, which was a minor violation of the protocol meant to isolate the effects of VR-JIT for secondary analyses.
Means do not include data from one IPS-as-usual participant who completed 210 minutes of mock interviewing with the employment specialist, because these data represented an outlier.
Means do not include data from one IPS-as-usual participant who completed 225 minutes discussing interview skills and two IPS+VR-JIT participants who completed 315 and 205 minutes discussing interview skills, because these data were outliers.
Two IPS_VR-JIT participants were missing specialist notes regarding discussing VR-JIT progress.
Six IPS+VR-JIT participants did not engage in VR-JIT (i.e., completed no VR-JIT sessions).
As measured by the VR-JIT algorithm. Possible scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better interview performance.