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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2016

Promoting Personal Recovery in People with Persisting Psychotic Disorders: Development and Pilot Study of a Novel Digital Intervention.

Neil Thomas, John Farhall, Fiona Foley, Nuwan Dominic Leitan, Kristi-Ann Villagonzalo, Emma Ladd, Cassy Nunan, Sue Farnan, Rosalie Frankish, Tara Smark and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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33 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Mend the Gap: Online User-Led Adjuvant Treatment for Psychosis: A Systematic Review on Recent Findings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  19. A pilot digital intervention targeting loneliness in young people with psychosis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Neil ThomasCentre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia; Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University and The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
John FarhallDepartment of Psychology and Counselling, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; NorthWestern Mental Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Fiona FoleyCentre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology , Hawthorn, VIC , Australia.
Nuwan Dominic LeitanCentre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology , Hawthorn, VIC , Australia.
Kristi-Ann VillagonzaloCentre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology , Hawthorn, VIC , Australia.
Emma LaddWellways Australia , Melbourne, VIC , Australia.
Cassy NunanWellways Australia , Melbourne, VIC , Australia.
Sue FarnanWellways Australia , Melbourne, VIC , Australia.
Rosalie FrankishWellways Australia , Melbourne, VIC , Australia.
Tara SmarkWellways Australia , Melbourne, VIC , Australia.
Susan L RossellCentre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia; Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Monash University and The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia.
Leon SterlingCentre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia; Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Greg MurrayCentre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology , Hawthorn, VIC , Australia.
David Jonathon CastleDepartment of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Michael KyriosCentre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia; Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundFor people with persisting psychotic disorders, personal recovery has become an important target of mental health services worldwide. Strongly influenced by mental health service consumer perspectives, personal recovery refers to being able to live a satisfying and contributing life irrespective of ongoing symptoms and disability. Contact with peers with shared lived experience is often cited as facilitative of recovery. We aimed to develop and pilot a novel recovery-based digitally supported intervention for people with a psychotic illness.

methodsWe developed a website to be used on a tablet computer by mental health workers to structure therapeutic discussions about personal recovery. Central to the site was a series of video interviews of people with lived experience of psychosis discussing how they had navigated issues within their own recovery based on the Connectedness-Hope-Identity-Meaning-Empowerment model of recovery. We examined the feasibility and acceptability of an 8-session low intensity intervention using this site in 10 participants with persisting psychotic disorders and conducted a proof-of-concept analysis of outcomes.

resultsAll 10 participants completed the full course of sessions, and it was possible to integrate use of the website into nearly all sessions. Participant feedback confirmed that use of the website was a feasible and acceptable way of working. All participants stated that they would recommend the intervention to others. Post-intervention, personal recovery measured by the Questionnaire for the Process of Recovery had improved by an average standardized effect of

conclusionIn-session use of digital resources featuring peer accounts of recovery is feasible and acceptable and shows promising outcomes. A randomized controlled trial is the next step in evaluating the efficacy of this low intensity intervention when delivered in conjunction with routine mental health care.

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digital healthlow intensity interventionsmental health servicespeer supportpersonal recoverypsychosisschizophreniatablet computers

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PMCPMC5179552

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