Project title: Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT) Evaluation Survey
Research Team info: Project lead: Dr. Monique Gignac, Scientific Co-Director and a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Work & Health (IWH), and a Professor at the University of Toronto.
Research Host Institution: Institute for Work & Health
Background: The Accommodating and Communicating about Episodic Disabilities (ACED) partnership is conducting research to develop new tools and resources to help people living with chronic physical or mental health conditions causing episodic disability to better remain employed.
Purpose of Study: The ACED team would like your help. We have completed the development of the first part of the ACED toolkit, the Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT). The JDAPT helps a person living with a physical or mental health condition identify job demands relevant to their work and asks about any health-related difficulties or challenges with those job demands. It then provides the user with a personalized list of potential work supports and accommodation ideas.
We want to understand whether this tool is helpful and meets the different health needs and job experiences of people working with an episodic disability.
We need your help! We invite you to participate in the evaluation study of the JDAPT tool.
If you are currently:
• Working in paid employment for 20 or more hours a week, and are
• interested in learning about or using different types of work supports and accommodations
What's involved:
• Completing an online questionnaire about you, your work, and your health
• Using the JDAPT tool and responding to some questions about the tool
• Completing two follow-up questionnaires – one three months after using the JDAPT and another questionnaire nine months later to help us learn about your use of the tool
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion criteria
- 18 years of age and older (born before 2005)
- Resident in Canada
- Living with a chronic physical or mental health condition that has made working difficult at least some of the time during the past 3 months
- Currently employed by someone else for pay
- Working at least 20 hours per week at one place of employment
Exclusion criteria
- Not currently employed (e.g., retired, homemakers, looking for work, on short- or long-term disability)
- Self-employed
- Working less than 20 hours/week at their primary job
- Planning to retire or take an extended leave (e.g., parental leave) within the next three months
The JDAPT is not a good fit for your situation:
- Do not think learning about supports or accommodations would be helpful
- Do not think you would use supports or accommodations to manage your health and work
- Feel that you already have access to all the work supports or accommodations you need at your current job
Participation Details:
To thank you for your time, participants will receive a total of $100.00 in three installments. You will receive a $30 honorarium after completing the first questionnaire and the JDAPT tool. You will receive $35 for each of the two follow-up questionnaires.
Confidentiality Protocols:
Participation in this research is completely voluntary. Your answers to the questionnaires will be confidential. Information that can identify you (like your name or identifying details) will be removed from your responses before they are analysed and will not be included in reports or publications about the study. All study data will be kept separate from the information that can identify you and will be kept in a secure location at the Institute for Work & Health. In order to receive your honorarium, you will need to provide the study coordinator with your name and an address where your cheque can be mailed. This information will be kept separate from your questionnaire responses.Only research team members will have access to the data.
Geographic location:
Resident of Canada
Recruitment start and end dates:
Feb. 7, 2022 – Jan. 31, 2023
Contact information:
Please click here to learn more or join the study: https://aced.iwh.on.ca/get-involved|
If you have questions about the study, please contact the ACED Study team at the Institute for Work & Health.
ACED Partnership Project
Institute for Work & Health
E-mail: aced@iwh.on.ca|
This study has been reviewed and approved by the University of Toronto Human Research Ethics Program (Protocol #41940). If you have any questions about the ethical oversight of this study, please contact the Research Oversight and Compliance Office - Human Research Ethics Program (University of Toronto) at ethics.review@utoronto.ca or 416-946-3273.