All Outputs (139)

Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Recovery Colleges are a relatively recent initiative within mental health services. The first opened in 2009 in London and since then numbers have grown. They are based on principles of personal recovery in mental health, co-production be... Read More about Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol.

Common Humanity as an Under-acknowledged Mechanism for Mental Health Peer Support (2022)
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Mental health peer support (PS) is a relational approach to recovery. Service users are helped through a relationship focused on connection with a PS worker who shares similar experiences. Despite the strong evidence base, the mechanisms of action fo... Read More about Common Humanity as an Under-acknowledged Mechanism for Mental Health Peer Support.

Embedding lived experience into mental health academic research organizations: Critical reflections (2022)
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Background: As part of a growing emphasis on engaging people with lived experience of mental health conditions in mental health research, there are increasing calls to consider and embed lived experience throughout academic research institutes. This... Read More about Embedding lived experience into mental health academic research organizations: Critical reflections.

‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories (2022)
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Mental health ‘recovery narratives’ are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars and activists as a co-option of lived experience for organisational purposes.... Read More about ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.

Experiences of peer support workers supporting individuals with substance use disorders in Egypt: phenomenological analysis (2022)
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Background: Peer support work for substance use disorders is widely implemented in high-income countries. More research is still needed to understand its applicability in settings which have proportionately low budgets allocated to mental health. Pee... Read More about Experiences of peer support workers supporting individuals with substance use disorders in Egypt: phenomenological analysis.

Impact of clinical decision-making participation and satisfaction on outcomes in mental health practice: results from the CEDAR European longitudinal study (2022)
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The present study aimed to assess: (1) whether a more active involvement of patients is associated with an improvement of clinical symptoms, global functioning, and quality-of-life; and (2) how patients’ satisfaction with clinical decisions can lead... Read More about Impact of clinical decision-making participation and satisfaction on outcomes in mental health practice: results from the CEDAR European longitudinal study.

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
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Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study (2022)
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Background: Delivery of recovery-oriented mental health practice is fundamental to personal recovery. Yet, there is lack of service users’ accounts on what constitutes mental health recovery in Egypt. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore... Read More about Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study.

Character Strength-Focused Positive Psychotherapy on Acute Psychiatric Wards: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study (2022)
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OBJECTIVE: A manualized single-session positive psychotherapy intervention was developed and tested on acute psychiatric wards. METHODS: Participants were invited in 2018-2019 to identify positive experiences, link them to a personal character streng... Read More about Character Strength-Focused Positive Psychotherapy on Acute Psychiatric Wards: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study.

Impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O Trial): updated randomised controlled trial protocol (2022)
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Background: Mental health recovery narratives are first-person lived experience accounts of recovery from mental health problems, which refer to events or actions over a period of time, and which include elements of adversity or struggle, and also se... Read More about Impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O Trial): updated randomised controlled trial protocol.

Associations between personal recovery and service user-rated versus clinician-rated clinical recovery, a cross-sectional study (2022)
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Background: This study examined the relationship between service user-rated personal recovery and clinician-rated and service user-rated clinical recovery. The relationships between different subdomains of clinical recovery and personal recovery were... Read More about Associations between personal recovery and service user-rated versus clinician-rated clinical recovery, a cross-sectional study.

The utility of patient‐reported outcome measures in mental health (2022)
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Positive psychotherapy for psychosis in Hong Kong: A randomized controlled trial (2022)
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Recovery-oriented practice has been advocated in mental health services in Hong Kong since 2009. Well-being has become an important area of focus for mental health services. Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis (PPP) is a well-being-focused intervent... Read More about Positive psychotherapy for psychosis in Hong Kong: A randomized controlled trial.

A multi-national peer support intervention: the UPSIDES pilot phase (2022)
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Objective. Using Peer Support in Developing Empowering Mental Health Services (UPSIDES) is evaluating implementation of a peer support worker (PSW) intervention at six recruiting sites (Germany, India, Israel, Tanzania, and Uganda) (ISRCTN26008944).... Read More about A multi-national peer support intervention: the UPSIDES pilot phase.

How do recorded mental health recovery narratives create connection and improve hopefulness? (2022)
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Background: Mental health recovery narratives are an active ingredient of recovery-oriented interventions such as peer support. Recovery narratives can create connection and hope, but there is limited evidence on the predictors of impact. Aims: The a... Read More about How do recorded mental health recovery narratives create connection and improve hopefulness?.

Proportionate translation of study materials and measures in a multinational global health trial: methodology development and implementation (2022)
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Objectives Current translation guidelines do not include sufficiently flexible translation approaches for different study materials. We aimed to develop a proportionate methodology to inform translation of all types of study materials in global healt... Read More about Proportionate translation of study materials and measures in a multinational global health trial: methodology development and implementation.

Post-traumatic growth in psychosis: a systematic review and narrative synthesis (2021)
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Background and objective: People with psychosis report experiences of highly traumatic events. Positive change or post-traumatic growth (PTG) can occur as a result of traumatic experiences. Yet there is limited attention on PTG in psychosis, possibly... Read More about Post-traumatic growth in psychosis: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Conceptual framework for personal recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction (2021)
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BACKGROUND: Although there has been movement in cardiology to advance patient-centered approaches to postacute myo-cardial infarction (AMI) care, work remains to be done in aligning patient preferences with clinical care. Our objective was to charact... Read More about Conceptual framework for personal recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Uses and Misuses of Recorded Mental Health Lived Experience Narratives in Healthcare and Community Settings: Systematic Review (2021)
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Mental health lived experience narratives are first-person accounts of people with experience of mental health problems. They have been published in journals, books and online, and used in healthcare interventions and anti-stigma campaigns. There are... Read More about Uses and Misuses of Recorded Mental Health Lived Experience Narratives in Healthcare and Community Settings: Systematic Review.

Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study (2021)
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Objectives Little research has looked at how people who do not use mental health services experience psychosis. Thus, the present study aimed to explore the experiences and views of people with psychosis who have neither sought nor received support f... Read More about Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study.