Convergent and Concurrent Validity between Clinical Recovery and Personal-Civic Recovery in Mental Health

Abstract

Several instruments have been developed by clinicians and academics to assess clinical recovery. Based on their life narratives, measurement tools have also been developed and validated through participatory research programs by persons living with mental health problems or illnesses to assess personal recovery. The main objective of this project is to explore possible correlations between clinical recovery, personal recovery, and citizenship by using patient-reported outcome measures. All study participants are currently being treated and monitored after having been diagnosed either with (a) psychotic disorders or (b) anxiety and mood disorders. They have completed questionnaires for clinical evaluation purposes (clinical recovery) will further complete the Recovery Assessment Scale and Citizenship Measure (personal-civic recovery composite index). Descriptive and statistical analyses will be performed to determine internal consistency for each of the subscales, and assess convergent-concurrent validity between clinical recovery, citizenship and personal recovery. Recovery-oriented mental health care and services are particularly recognizable by the presence of Peer Support Workers, who are persons with lived experience of recovery. Upon training, they can personify personalized mental health care and services, that is to say services that are centered on the person’s recovery project and not only on their symptoms. Data from our overall research strategy will lay the ground for the evaluation of the effects of the intervention of Peer Support Workers on clinical recovery, citizenship and personal recovery.

Part II: Living Life: A Meta-Synthesis Exploring Recovery as Processual Experiences

“…In this article (Part 2), the focus is on recovery understood as a process. This calls for a reminder of a discussion over several years on whether recovery should be understood as a process, as an outcome, or as a combination of both [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]…”

“…In this article (Part 2), the focus is on recovery understood as a process. This calls for a reminder of a discussion over several years on whether recovery should be understood as a process, as an outcome, or as a combination of both [1][2][3] Davidson and colleagues argued that recovery as a process needs to be understood on its own terms and not necessarily linked to outcomes [2]. Rather, recovery as a process has to do with leading full lives in the face of mental illness and within traditional psychiatry, which is not ordinarily defined as an outcome.…”

Online and Recovery-Oriented Support Groups Facilitated by Peer Support Workers in Times of COVID-19: Protocol for a Feasibility Pre-Post Study

“…The study was approved by the local ethics committee in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the Signature Bank's management framework provides further details on recruitment and consent forms. Between August 26, 2019, and February 26, 2020 (6 months), a preliminary validation study [100] allowed us to recruit 93 of the Signature Bank participants diagnosed with either psychotic disorders, or with anxiety and mood disorders. In total, 36 were female (39%) and 57 were male (61%).…”

A short form of the Recovery Assessment Scale‐Domains and Stages: Development and validation among adults with anxiety disorders

“…Such personal recovery is distinct from the conceptualization of clinical recovery, which signifies the amelioration of symptoms (Chan et al, 2018; Enrique et al, 2020). Pelletier et al (2020), for example, state that within the clinical recovery paradigm ‘the role of the ill person is mainly to follow the instructions of professionals and comply with prescribed treatments’, whereas personal recovery encompasses ‘the empowerment of the persons, their ownership and authorship of their own history, autonomy, and independence in living’ (p. 2). Researchers have increasingly incorporated recovery‐based indicators (e.g., quality of life, hope and optimism) as key outcome measures of psychosocial interventions (e.g., befriending and peer‐support programs) for so‐called serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (Lloyd‐Evans et al, 2014; Siette et al, 2017).…”