TY - JOUR
T1 - Using a digital personal recovery resource in routine mental health practice
T2 - feasibility, acceptability and outcomes
AU - Farhall, John
AU - Castle, David
AU - Constantine, Emma
AU - Foley, Fiona
AU - Kyrios, Michael
AU - Rossell, Susan
AU - Arnold, Chelsea
AU - Leitan, Nuwan
AU - Villagonzalo, Kristi Ann
AU - Brophy, Lisa
AU - Fossey, Ellie
AU - Meyer, Denny
AU - Mihalopoulos, Cathrine
AU - Murray, Greg
AU - Nunan, Cassy
AU - Sterling, Leon
AU - Thomas, Neil
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Background: Digital technologies enable the dissemination of multimedia resources to support adults with serious mental illness in their self-management and personal recovery. However, delivery needs to accommodate engagement and accessibility challenges. Aims: We examined how a digital resource, designed for mental health workers and consumers to use together in session, would be used in routine practice. Methods: Thirty consumers and their workers participated. The web-based resource, Self-Management And Recovery Technology (SMART), was available to use within and between sessions, for a 6-month period. Workers initiated in-session use where relevant. Feasibility was explored via uptake and usage data; and acceptability and impact via questionnaires. A pre-post design assessed recovery outcomes for consumers and relationship outcomes for consumers and workers. Results: In participating mental health practitioner-consumer dyads, consumers gave strong acceptability ratings, and reported improved working relationships. However, the resource was typically used in one-third or fewer appointments, with consumers expressing a desire for greater in-session use. Improvements in self-rated personal recovery were not observed, possibly contributed to by low usage. Conclusions: In-session use was found helpful by consumers but may be constrained by other demands in mental health care delivery: collaborative use may require dedicated staff time or more formal implementation.
AB - Background: Digital technologies enable the dissemination of multimedia resources to support adults with serious mental illness in their self-management and personal recovery. However, delivery needs to accommodate engagement and accessibility challenges. Aims: We examined how a digital resource, designed for mental health workers and consumers to use together in session, would be used in routine practice. Methods: Thirty consumers and their workers participated. The web-based resource, Self-Management And Recovery Technology (SMART), was available to use within and between sessions, for a 6-month period. Workers initiated in-session use where relevant. Feasibility was explored via uptake and usage data; and acceptability and impact via questionnaires. A pre-post design assessed recovery outcomes for consumers and relationship outcomes for consumers and workers. Results: In participating mental health practitioner-consumer dyads, consumers gave strong acceptability ratings, and reported improved working relationships. However, the resource was typically used in one-third or fewer appointments, with consumers expressing a desire for greater in-session use. Improvements in self-rated personal recovery were not observed, possibly contributed to by low usage. Conclusions: In-session use was found helpful by consumers but may be constrained by other demands in mental health care delivery: collaborative use may require dedicated staff time or more formal implementation.
KW - community mental health services
KW - Digital mental health
KW - digital tools
KW - lived experience video
KW - personal recovery
KW - psychosis
KW - tablet computers
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U2 - 10.1080/09638237.2022.2118688
DO - 10.1080/09638237.2022.2118688
M3 - Article
C2 - 36072983
AN - SCOPUS:85135103685
SN - 0963-8237
VL - 32
SP - 567
EP - 574
JO - Journal of Mental Health
JF - Journal of Mental Health
IS - 3
ER -
