Recovery colleges in mental health-care services: an Australian feasibility and acceptability study
Mental Health and Social Inclusion
ISSN: 2042-8308
Article publication date: 28 August 2021
Issue publication date: 2 February 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of establishing a recovery college in an Australian acute and community adult mental health service. Very little has been published on efforts to incorporate recovery colleges in inpatient settings other than forensic. This study offers an evaluation of feasibility and acceptability of this service model within a health-care setting.
Design/methodology/approach
Participant feedback and qualitative implementation data, from an acute mental health-care inpatient ward and adult community care were used. Participants were mental health service consumers and staff. The intervention involved a co-produced, co-designed, co-delivered and co-received educational opportunity for mental health consumers, carers, staff and the community.
Findings
Feedback from course participants indicates that learning objectives were met by the majority of participants, while stakeholders identified that establishing a recovery college within both the inpatient and community health-care service was feasible at a service level and broadly acceptable to consumers.
Originality/value
Establishing an adult recovery college in inpatient and community care is likely to be effective re-orientating mental health-care services as well as improving outcomes for consumers.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank all the participants in this research project for sharing their time and expertise. Authors acknowledge that this work was carried out on the lands of the people of the Kulin Nation and pay our respects to their culture and their Elders past, present and emerging.Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.Declaration of conflictinginterests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
Citation
Hopkins, L., Foster, A., Belmore, S., Anderson, S. and Wiseman, D. (2022), "Recovery colleges in mental health-care services: an Australian feasibility and acceptability study", Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 12-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-06-2021-0035
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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