Clinical treatment interventions in personal recovery stories of patients with severe mental illness: a qualitative study.

IF 3.6 2区医学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI:10.1007/s00127-025-02872-w

Robin Michael Van Eck, Auke Jelsma, Jelle Blondeel, Kimriek de Wilde-Schutten, Jannick Vincent Rutger Zondervan, Thijs Jan Burger, Astrid Vellinga, Mariken Beatrijs de Koning, Frederike Schirmbeck, Sylvia Gerritsen, Martijn Kikkert, Lieuwe de Haan

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Purpose: In 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.

Methods: Semi-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.

Results: We 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.

Conclusion: Mental 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.

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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

8.50

自引率

2.30%

发文量

184

审稿时长

3-6 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology is intended to provide a medium for the prompt publication of scientific contributions concerned with all aspects of the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders - social, biological and genetic. In addition, the journal has a particular focus on the effects of social conditions upon behaviour and the relationship between psychiatric disorders and the social environment. Contributions may be of a clinical nature provided they relate to social issues, or they may deal with specialised investigations in the fields of social psychology, sociology, anthropology, epidemiology, health service research, health economies or public mental health. We will publish papers on cross-cultural and trans-cultural themes. We do not publish case studies or small case series. While we will publish studies of reliability and validity of new instruments of interest to our readership, we will not publish articles reporting on the performance of established instruments in translation. Both original work and review articles may be submitted.