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Review
. 2023 Oct 17;17(1):33.
doi: 10.1186/s13033-023-00600-y.

A systematic review of measures of the personal recovery orientation of mental health services and staff

Mary Leamy  1 , Una Foye  2 , Anne Hirrich  3 , Dagfin Bjørgen  3 , Josh Silver  4 , Alan Simpson  2 , Madeline Ellis  2 , Karl Johan-Johanson  3
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Review

A systematic review of measures of the personal recovery orientation of mental health services and staff

Mary Leamy et al. Int J Ment Health Syst. .

Abstract

Purpose: This review aimed to update and extend the Williams and colleagues 2012 systematic review of measures of recovery-orientation of mental health services by examining whether any of the specific knowledge gaps identified in this original review had subsequently been addressed.

Methods: A systematic review using CINAHL, ASSIA, Embase, PsycINFO, Medline and other sources, searched from 2012 until 2021. The conceptualisation of recovery and recovery-orientation of services was explored. Psychometric properties of measures were evaluated using quality criteria and according to ease of use.

Results: Fourteen measures assessing aspects of the recovery orientation of services and staff were identified, of which ten met the eligibility. Psychometric properties were evaluated, and conceptualisations of recovery and recovery-orientation of services investigated.

Conclusion: After over a decade of research in the field of recovery outcome measurement, there remains a lack of a single gold-standard measure of recovery-orientation of mental health services. There is a need for researchers to develop a new gold standard measure of recovery-orientation of services that is psychometrically valid and reliable, demonstrates sensitivity to change and is easy to use. It needs to show a good fit to an underpinning conceptual model/ framework of both personal recovery and recovery-oriented services and/or systems, with different versions for stakeholders at each level of an organisation or system.

Keywords: Measure; Mental health services.; Recovery; Reliability; Systematic review; Validity.

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