The Arab minority of East Jerusalem: An exploratory study of vocational rehabilitation in mental health.

Background: The Arab population of East Jerusalem with serious mental illness (SMI) is an ethnic and health status minority that has unique employment issues. Vocational rehabilitation offered to this population is guided by standard regulations that are grounded in knowledge obtained from Western communities on the employment enablers, while negligible research was done to investigate relevance of these enablers for the Arab population.

Objective: The study aims to examine the previously well-established association between motor, cognitive, and emotional personal factors, occupation features, environmental characteristics, and vocational outcomes of job satisfaction and performance among the Arab population of East Jerusalem with SMI.