Recovery in Borderline Personality Disorder v1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Borderline personality disorder (BPD): What are Service Users’ views of recovery and the facilitators and barriers to it?
IRAS ID
310611
Contact name
James Stroud
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cardiff University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 00 days
Research summary
There is a need for specific research into service users’ views about what recovery with borderline personality disorder means. It is also important to understand what hinders and helps recovery as it is defined by service users. This project will use interviews with service users to develop a deeper understanding of what is important to those who are both currently and have historically received care and what will help them to make positive progress toward a meaningful life of their own definition. This understanding is hoped to be useful for service planning and staff training in the future in addition to amplifying service users’ voices in the literature. There is a possibility it may inform changes in the care they themselves receive in due course, and others with similar experiences in the future. The service users’ perspectives are at the core of this research project, and it is hoped that this will balance the predominantly service, researcher and clinician constructed understanding and measurement of recovery in these settings.
REC name
Wales REC 6
REC reference
22/WA/0350
Date of REC Opinion
14 Dec 2022
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion