The lived experience of using a mental health employment service
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A phenomenological study of the lived experience of using a mental health employment service.
IRAS ID
182233
Contact name
Dawn Leeming
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Huddersfield
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 31 days
Research summary
The current proposal wishes to study the lived experience of mental health service users in a mental health employment service. The director of NAViGO in Grimsby has kindly offered their mental health employment service, TUKE's, to be the area of research. TUKE's work with mental health service users (referred to as members by the organisation) by offering them employment within the organisation in the hope that it will aid members in their struggles. Members who do work within the TUKE's service are assessed by key workers to ensure they are at a suitable stage in their mental health to be in a working environment.
Within this service, the researcher will explore the therapeutic effects, if any, of employment with service users and hopes to provide beneficial information to mental health practitioners when considering service users. Those who are deemed appropriate by the researcher, through the guidance of key workers, will only be considered to participate. The study shall take place in a room at NAViGO house, but also where key workers can be contacted if needed. Data will be collected through a semi-structured interview with service users, with consent, and will last approximately 1 hour.
The completion date of the thesis hopes to be August 2016. With this to consider, I hope to have all data collected by February 2016. The data will be collected through a semi-structured interview with service users, with consent, and will last approximately 1 hour. This will then be analysed using a phenomenological approach. All participants will be given pseudonyms and will be given the chance to withdraw their answers at any time up until the date where analysis shall begin.REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds West Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/YH/0470
Date of REC Opinion
28 Jun 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion