5. Limitations
depressive, infection
INFECTION, SECONDARY, RECRUITMENT
This study originally aimed to examine the effects of the JOBS Program intervention on the reintegration into the labor market, life satisfaction, state of health, depressive symptoms, and psychological distress among the unemployed in Germany. Of secondary interest were moderating factors such as socio-demographic characteristics, the duration of unemployment, and the job-search intensity. The hampering conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic and its infection control measures caused a lack of participants, which led to a low statistical power. The authors are convinced that, under normal (non-pandemic) recruitment conditions, the statistical power would have produced clearer results, especially with regard to increasing self-efficacy expectations. With a larger sample, better subgroup analyses would have been possible; for example, with regard to the intervention effects among participants of different nationalities or regarding intervention effects in the different study centers.