EEPIC - Enhancing Employability through Positive Interventions for improving Career potential: the impact of a high support career guidance intervention on the wellbeing, hopefulness, self-efficacy and employability of the long-term unemployed - a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Table 2 Primary and secondary outcomes and data collection

Outcomes	Method of collection	Assessment	Baseline (t0)	Post Intervention (t1)	6-month follow-up (t2)
Primary outcome	Increased wellbeing	General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12)	x	x	x
Primary outcome	Increased wellbeing	Satisfaction with Life scale	x	x	x
Secondary outcomes	Self-esteem	Rosenberg Self-Esteem Questionnaire	x	x	x
	Career self-efficacy	Career Self Efficacy Questionnaire	x	x	x
	Resilience	Brief Resilience Scale	x	x	x
	Hopefulness	State Hope Scale	x	x	x
	Perceived progress towards the labour market^a	Cantril’s Self-Anchoring Ladder^a			x
	Re-employment or labour market participation			x	x
	Re-employment quality	Job satisfaction		x	x
		Job sustainability		x	x
		Level of earnings		x	x
	Access to education / vocational training			x	x

^aPerceived progress towards the labour market is collected by the guidance practitioner during the intervention/ usual service, at a minimum of two time points, i.e. first appointment and last appointment

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