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Outcomes identified and prioritised by consumers of Partners in Recovery: a consumer-led study

BACKGROUND: Recovery oriented service provisions means focusing on outcomes that are important to consumers themselves rather than to clinicians or services. Partners in Recovery (PIR) is an Australia-wide initiative designed to provide service coordination and brokerage for individuals with severe...

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Autores principales: Waks, Shifra, Scanlan, Justin Newton, Berry, Bridget, Schweizer, Richard, Hancock, Nicola, Honey, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1498-5
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author Waks, Shifra
Scanlan, Justin Newton
Berry, Bridget
Schweizer, Richard
Hancock, Nicola
Honey, Anne
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description BACKGROUND: Recovery oriented service provisions means focusing on outcomes that are important to consumers themselves rather than to clinicians or services. Partners in Recovery (PIR) is an Australia-wide initiative designed to provide service coordination and brokerage for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. One PIR service engaged a consumer-led research team to evaluate the service from the perspective of consumers. This consumer-led study was established to explore PIR consumers’ perceptions of outcomes they achieved through their involvement with PIR. METHODS: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews exploring participants’ views about and experiences with PIR. Data analysis occurred simultaneously with data collection using constant comparative analysis. RESULTS: Twenty consumers participated. They reported experiencing valued outcomes in six domains: feeling supported; feeling more hopeful and positive about the future; improved mental clarity, focus and order in life; getting out of the house and engaging in positive activity; having a better social life; and improved physical health. CONCLUSIONS: Exploring outcomes achieved by PIR consumers, from their own perspective provides a nuanced understanding of the contribution these programs can have in supporting individuals’ recovery. Findings from this study highlight the kinds of outcomes consumers achieve when engaged with service coordination and brokerage services. Findings also suggest that outcome measures used in these types of services should focus on recovery outcomes as well as met and unmet needs.
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spelling pubmed-63892132019-03-19 Outcomes identified and prioritised by consumers of Partners in Recovery: a consumer-led study Waks, Shifra Scanlan, Justin Newton Berry, Bridget Schweizer, Richard Hancock, Nicola Honey, Anne BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: Recovery oriented service provisions means focusing on outcomes that are important to consumers themselves rather than to clinicians or services. Partners in Recovery (PIR) is an Australia-wide initiative designed to provide service coordination and brokerage for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. One PIR service engaged a consumer-led research team to evaluate the service from the perspective of consumers. This consumer-led study was established to explore PIR consumers’ perceptions of outcomes they achieved through their involvement with PIR. METHODS: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews exploring participants’ views about and experiences with PIR. Data analysis occurred simultaneously with data collection using constant comparative analysis. RESULTS: Twenty consumers participated. They reported experiencing valued outcomes in six domains: feeling supported; feeling more hopeful and positive about the future; improved mental clarity, focus and order in life; getting out of the house and engaging in positive activity; having a better social life; and improved physical health. CONCLUSIONS: Exploring outcomes achieved by PIR consumers, from their own perspective provides a nuanced understanding of the contribution these programs can have in supporting individuals’ recovery. Findings from this study highlight the kinds of outcomes consumers achieve when engaged with service coordination and brokerage services. Findings also suggest that outcome measures used in these types of services should focus on recovery outcomes as well as met and unmet needs. BioMed Central 2017-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6389213/ /pubmed/28985728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1498-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Schweizer, Richard
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Honey, Anne
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28985728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1498-5
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