Service user experience of attending a Recovery Group (Tier 4 CAMHS)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Service user experience of attending a ‘Recovery Group’ within a Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
IRAS ID
203502
Contact name
Catrina Stansfield
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Lancaster University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 28 days
Research summary
Title: Service user experience of attending a ‘Recovery Group’ within a Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
The ‘recovery model’ of care is becoming a central component within mental health service organisation and delivery. Recovery can be viewed as supporting people to manage their own ‘self-defined’ symptoms, built resilience and live a meaningful life. Recovery, however, is a profoundly personal concept. There exists no one shared meaning and research suggests that there is particularly evidence contrasting perspectives between service users and professional. How mental healthcare systems can facilitate this individualistic nature of recovery presents a fundamental challenge. Establishing a shared understanding is thought to be fundamental in achieving this. The government is under increasing pressure to personalise services and move towards outcomes which better reflect recovery, for example quality of life and patient satisfaction. Therefore, the proposed study aims to evaluate the service users' experience of a ‘recovery group’ piloted in a Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust Tier 4 CAMHS called The Junction.6-10 participants will be recruited from The Junction. Participants will be aged between 13 -18 and will be currently residents within the inpatient service. All participants will have completed the full recovery group which comprises of 3 weekly hour long sessions.
Qualitative methodology is deemed the most appropriate for eliciting participants' unique experiences. Participants will be asked to partake in a semi-structured interview lasting up to one hour. The interviews will be audio recorded and transcribed by the researcher. Data will be coded and themes identified using thematic analysis. Descriptive statistics will be provided, anonymised, by the field supervisor; a qualified clinical psychologist who facilitates the recovery group. This will provide demographic information to offer an overview of the population presented in the sample including age, gender, session attendance, average length of therapeutic care.
REC name
North West - Greater Manchester East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/NW/0683
Date of REC Opinion
5 Oct 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion