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Sube Banerjee |
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Mike Slade |
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Background There is a currently a strong service user and policy agenda to refocus mental health services for adults of working age in order that they actively support the personal recovery of service users. Despite a similar policy agenda, to date, there has not been an equivalent series of initiatives within older people’s mental health services. The overall aim of this study is to understand the experience of personal recovery for older people with mental health problems and to assess the impact of delivering a team-based recovery training intervention upon staff practice and service user outcomes. Methods and progress to date (August 2012) This study has two main phases, detailed as follows: Phase one A series of qualitative interviews with older people with mental health problems and their carers have been carried out. The purpose of the qualitative interviews was to identify the individual components of personal recovery which are applicable to older people, and the findings were used, along with staff and service user focus groups to synthesise a team based recovery package, and appropriate measures for use within older people’s mental health services. The training package and associated measures were field tested with two clinical teams. Phase two The team based recovery training package was delivered to a further seven clinical teams. The impact on service users and staff is currently being evaluated using an interrupted time-series design with both quantitative and qualitative measures. |
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January 2010 ongoing |
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Stephanie Daley
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