Self-Administered Instrument to Measure the Patient's Experience of Recovery After First-Episode Psychosis: Development and Validation of the Psychosis Recovery Inventory

Abstract

This pragmatic, low burden, self-administered scale can be applied in clinical and research settings to obtain reliable information on the attitudes of patients on a range of interrelated issues in the recovery stage that follows a first-episode psychosis.

Psychological approaches to understanding and promoting recovery in psychosis and bipolar disorder: a mixed-methods approach

“…As discussed, several measures of recovery from psychosis have already been developed based on service user accounts 91 and one measure was designed collaboratively with service users. 92 However, no previous studies have been able to ask a large sample of service users to rate the importance of items included in these measures and other similar measures of recovery.…”

“…90 Various measures of service user-defined recovery have been developed over the last two decades, with items covering a variety of themes including hope, confidence and empowerment, awareness and understanding, help seeking, social support and goals or purpose. 31 Only two measures have been developed specifically to measure service user-defined recovery from psychosis: the Psychosis Recovery Inventory 91 and the QPR. 92 None of the user-defined recovery measures has been adopted as a routine outcome measure in mental health services in the UK to date, although various services are piloting local measures.…”

The Conceptual Adequacy of the Drug Attitude Inventory for Measuring Youth Attitudes Toward Psychotropic Medications: A Mixed Methods Evaluation

“…This measure has predicted adherence in a number of adult studies of schizophrenia and depression (Brook, van Hout, Nieuwenhuyse & Heerdink, 2003;Gervin et al, 1999;Hogan et al, 1983;Kampman et al, 2000;Pae et al, 2004;Rossi, Arduini, Stratta, & Pallanti, 2000;Sajatovic et al, 2002) and is frequently used as a validation standard in the design of other scales (Chen, Tam, Wong, Law & Chiu, 2005;Jeste et al, 2003).…”

Subjective judgements of perceived recovery from psychosis

“…However, various measures have been developed and validated within clinical samples, and there are two that measure recovery specifically in people with experience of psychosis: the Psychosis Recovery Inventory (Chen et al, 2005) and the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (Neil et al, 2009). The latter was developed using a collaborative approach with service-user researchers forming part of the research team, and incorporates factors such as hope, empowerment, support and purposeful activity; these factors are echoed in service user accounts of recovery (Deegan, 1988;Leete, 1989;Ridgeway, 2001).…”

“…The latter was developed using a collaborative approach with service-user researchers forming part of the research team, and incorporates factors such as hope, empowerment, support and purposeful activity; these factors are echoed in service user accounts of recovery (Deegan, 1988;Leete, 1989;Ridgeway, 2001). In contrast, the Psychosis Recovery Inventory (Chen et al, 2005), which focuses on attitudes towards medication and treatment compliance, includes factors which are less consistent with the themes identified in service user accounts of recovery. This difference in consumer and clinical conceptualisations of recovery has been highlighted in a study, which explored the correlation of outcome measures of recovery from the two perspectives (Andresen et al, 2010).…”