ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2025
Clinical treatment interventions in personal recovery stories of patients with severe mental illness: a qualitative study.
Article in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- The DSM needs more than revision: five blind spots and a case for dialogical redesign.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Patient Experiences of a Recovery-Oriented Nursing Programme in Inpatient Psychiatric Care: A Qualitative Study.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeIn quantitative research, small to medium associations were found between clinical and personal recovery in patients with severe mental illness (SMI). This finding may result from varying relationships between clinical and personal recovery depending on the individual patient. The aim of the current study was to explore the subjective experience of clinical treatment interventions in personal recovery stories of patients with severe mental illness.
methodsSemi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 patients with SMI receiving treatment of a Flexible Assertive Community Treatment team in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Thematic analysis was used.
resultsWe found that most clinical treatment interventions can have both positive and negative impact on personal recovery: (1) receiving a diagnosis can lead to relief, but also to stigma, (2) medication has positive effects, but side-effects impair personal recovery, (3) hospitalization and (4) coercive treatment can be helpful, but can also impact the process of recovery negatively, (5) psychological treatment is experienced as beneficial.
conclusionMental healthcare practitioners' awareness of patients' diverging experiences regarding the impact of clinical treatment interventions on personal recovery is important to carry out recovery-supportive practice. Communicating a diagnosis with a hopeful narrative, developing personalized medication strategies and post-hospital reflection on the use of restraints are a good basis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.