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Long-term Changes in Personal Recovery and Quality of Life Among Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Different Durations of Illness: A Meta-analysis.
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- Psychosocial Interventions, Recovery, and Mediating Mechanisms in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of Recovery Colleges: A Nonrandomised Clinical Trial Across Two Years Using Propensity Score Matching: Efficacité des collèges de rétablissement: essai clinique non randomisé sur deux ans utilisant l'appariement par score de propension.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Observational
- The Association of Antipsychotic Treatment and Side Effects With Societal Recovery and Happiness: A Naturalistic Cohort Study of People in Long-term Care for a Psychotic Disorder.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Does neurocognition predict personal recovery over time in psychotic disorder patients?Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- Is Happiness a Possible Outcome for People With Schizophrenia?Alpha psychiatry · 2026Article
- Mapping personal recovery in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: an exploratory machine learning study of self-reported stage classifications.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Interrelationships of long-term changes in recovery domains among patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a six-year follow-up study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Clinical treatment interventions in personal recovery stories of patients with severe mental illness: a qualitative study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Assessing personal recovery in individuals with severe mental illness: validation of the Dutch Brief INSPIRE-O.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- What Remains to Be Discovered in Schizophrenia Therapeutics: Contributions by Advancing the Molecular Mechanisms of Drugs for Psychosis and Schizophrenia.Biomolecules · 2024Review
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Abstract
background and hypothesisIn schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) personal recovery and subjective quality of life (S-QOL) are crucial and show conceptual overlap. There is limited knowledge about how these outcomes change over time. Therefore, we investigated changes in personal recovery or S-QOL for patients with SSD. We specifically focused on the influence of the patients' durations of illness (DOI) on changes in personal recovery and S-QOL. STUDY
designWe included 46 studies investigating longitudinal changes in quantitative assessments of personal recovery or S-QOL for patients with SSD. Outcomes were categorized in overall personal recovery, overall S-QOL connectedness, hope and optimism, identity, meaning in life, and empowerment. We evaluated effect sizes of change between baseline and follow-up assessments. We also evaluated potential moderating effects, including DOI on these changes in outcomes. STUDY
resultsWe found small improvements of overall personal recovery and S-QOL, but marginal or no improvement over time in the other more specific outcome domains. Patients without a schizophrenia diagnosis, a younger age, and more recent publications positively influenced these changes. We found no significant influence of DOI on the changes in any outcome domain.
conclusionsImprovement in personal recovery or S-QOL of people with SSD is modest at best. However, these studies did not fully capture the personal narratives or nonlinear process of recovery of an individual. Future research should focus on how to shift from a clinical to more person-oriented approach in clinical practice to support patients in improving their personal process of recovery. REVIEW PROTOCOL REGISTRATION: CRD42022377100.
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