NCT04075838

The Development and Efficacy of a Recovery Group for People With Mental Illness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Cheng-Kung University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Recovery-oriented approach has been promoted in psychiatric rehabilitation in recent years. This approach emphasizes that people with mental illness can live a hopeful life even though the symptoms still exist. However, few recovery-oriented programs are available in Taiwan. This study aimed to develop of a recovery-oriented program for people with mental illness and investigate its feasibility.

Detailed description

The study participants with mental illness were from a community mental health center in the south of Taiwan. The recovery-oriented program was conducted by a group leader, a senior occupational therapist, with one supervisor and one observer. The program was designed based on Pathways to Recovery, a self-help book published by University of Kansas. Participants attended a 1-hour class per week. The teaching methods included didactic presentation, peer exchange, group discussion, and practice. The group leader, supervisor, and observer reviewed the content and participants' performance after each class and made content adjustments if needed.

Conditions

• Mental Illness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Recovery group	The researchers designed a recovery group suited to Taiwanese with mental illness, according to content of the PTR (Ridgway et al., 2002) and recovery-related literature (Davidson et al., 2005; Ridgway, 2001)

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-14
• Primary completion: 2018-07-12
• Completion: 2018-07-12
• First posted: 2019-09-03
• Last updated: 2019-09-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan