Exploring Personal Recovery in Black individuals with Psychosis
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Exploring the factors supporting Personal Recovery for Black individuals with Psychosis.
IRAS ID
252228
Contact name
Keren Yeboah
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Christ Church Canterbury
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 13 days
Research summary
Slade (2009) conceptualises Clinical Recovery as centering on using symptom reduction as a measure of successful intervention but argues that this offers a limited picture of what people with mental health difficulties find helpful in achieving a sense of wellbeing (Slade et al., 2014).
Personal Recovery can be defined as a process by which people with mental health difficulties use their personal strengths and resources to develop a positive identity and live a satisfying life even if experiencing continuing difficulties. Personal Recovery has been well evidenced through the service user movement and qualitative research. Nevertheless, there remains a paucity of research exploring the role of race and culture in the experience of Personal Recovery.
This is particularly important considering that research has highlighted experiences, underlined by race and culture that may have an impact on an individuals “attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills, and/or roles” (Anthony, 1993) which are key in the development of Personal Recovery.
Statistics show that Black men are more likely to be hospitalised, more likely to diagnosed with “severe” diagnoses such as Schizophrenia, and are less likely to be offered interventions that have a collaborative, de-stigmatising approach (Bhugra & Bahl,1999; Bhui et al., 2003). However, a problem-focussed bias in the literature means that a potential wealth of information about how Black People with Psychosis might have developed a sense of Personal Recovery is missing.
This project will use a qualitative methodology called "Grounded Theory" (Charmaz, 2006) to develop a theory which deepens our understanding of how of Black culture(s) and community might influence personal recovery in psychosis.
Whilst this project may reveal community specific and wider systemic barriers to recovery, we hope to focus on enablers and facilitators of recovery within the Black Community as described by Black people who have had an experience of Psychosis.REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 2 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/EM/0224
Date of REC Opinion
8 Jul 2019
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion