Author/Editor		Brejc, T
Title		Evaluation and counselling interventions provided by a vocational rehabilitation unit
Type		članek
Source		Clinical rehabilitation
Vol. and No.		Letnik 8
Publication year		1994
Volume		str. 346-52
Language		eng
Abstract		The objective of this exploratory investigation was to evaluate the benefits of evaluation and counselling interventions provided by the Vocational Rehabilitation Unit of Ljubljana University Rehabilitation Institute. Relative benefits ratio/quotient (RBQ), i.e. the ratio between gains in economic independence, social integrationh and subjective satisfaction of the client, degree of case difficulty, and the amount of programme provided by the Unit were obtained for 75 clients. No relationship existed between the benefits resulting from the Unit interventions, degree of difficulty of client problems (case difficulty), and the amount of programme. The findings supported the idea that intensive rehabilitation efforts did not have a linear and immediate influence on the results. The clients achieved greater economical and social than personal benefits, while their dissatisfaction with nonvocational consequences of the programme, especially those related to the narrowing social interactions was also obvious. The relative benefits ratio, developed for this investigation, proved to be a fairly simple and practical tool for the assessment of the rehabilitation work. However, it requires further improvement by establishing reliability and validity of the assessment criteria, and defining relative importance of the case difficulty indicators.
Descriptors		REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL DISABILITY EVALUATION ADULT COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS