ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2022
A qualitative study exploring personal recovery meaning and the potential influence of clinical recovery status on this meaning 20 years after a first-episode psychosis.
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- Views on mental health recovery in primary and community mental healthcare services in Thailand: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Beyond symptom improvement: transdiagnostic and disorder-specific ways to assess functional and quality of life outcomes across mental disorders in adults.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025Article
- Clinical treatment interventions in personal recovery stories of patients with severe mental illness: a qualitative study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- "Why shouldn't I expect a lot from life?" - a qualitative study of what facilitates long-term recovery in first-episode psychosis.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Taking what you get or Getting what you Need: A Qualitative Study on Experiences with Mental Health and Welfare Services in Long-Term Recovery in First-Episode Psychosis.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Mental Health Recovery in Social Psychiatric Policies: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Do recovery-oriented messages improve self-efficacy and positive emotions amongst people with lived experience of psychosis? Experimental investigation.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2022Article
- Psychological Resilience to Suicidal Experiences in People with Non-Affective Psychosis: A Position Paper.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
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purposeLong-term data on recovery conceptualisation in psychotic illness are needed to support mental health services to organise themselves according to recovery-oriented frameworks. To our knowledge, no previous research has investigated how first-episode psychosis (FEP) service users (sampled across psychotic illness type) perceive recovery beyond 5 years after diagnosis. We aimed to explore personal recovery meaning with individuals 20 years after their FEP and examine the potential influence of clinical recovery status on how they defined recovery (i.e. personal recovery).
methodsTwenty participants were purposefully sampled from an epidemiologically representative FEP incidence cohort. At 20-year follow-up, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 cohort members who met full 'functional recovery criteria' (Clinically Recovered Group) and 10 who did not (Not Clinically Recovered Group). A thematic analysis was performed to develop shared themes and group-specific sub-themes to capture agreement and divergence between groups.
resultsFive shared themes were produced: pursuing balance in conflict, generating meaning in life, experiencing a dynamic personal relationship with time, redressing inequality while managing added challenges/vulnerability, and directing life from resilience to flourishing. The five group-specific sub-themes developed illuminate differences in the meaning ascribed to personal recovery by each group.
conclusionFindings emphasise the role of time in how personal recovery is conceptualised by service users and identify ways clinical recovery may influence personal recovery meaning in FEP at mid-later life. Mental health services failing to consider temporal changes in meaning-making and discounting clinical recovery risk ignoring key factors affecting personal recovery.
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