A Q Sort Study: Perspectives of Recovery in a Community Project
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A Q Sort Study: Service-User and Trainee Psychologists perspectives of recovery in a community based project.
IRAS ID
128468
Contact name
Heather Wood
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Keele University
Research summary
The Growthpoint project is a community-based project funded by North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. The project provides a place where people can take part in a number of activities including gardening, carpentry, metalwork, art therapy, flower arranging, educational activities as well as just a place for meeting friends and having a cup of tea.
Many of the people who attend Growthpoint have experienced mental health problems in the past. Some of these people have attended mental health clinics and been given medication to help with mental health problems. Others may have gone into hospital or even seen a psychologist to help with these problems.
This study would like to find out what people like about a project like Growthpoint. What do they like about being involved in this type of project compared to seeing a doctor or taking medicine for mental health problems? We hope to answer these questions by asking people to take part in our study. This would involve reading some cards that talk about different things that are important in recovery from mental health problems. We then ask people to pick out which of the cards is most important to them as an individual.We also plan to use the same set of cards to ask trainee clinical psychologists what they think is important in recovery from mental health problems. We can then see if the service-users and trainees have similar ideas about what is important to help recovery in mental health problems.
REC name
South Central - Hampshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/SC/1137
Date of REC Opinion
11 Jul 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion