Beyond recovery: toward rights-based mental health care - A cluster randomized wait-list controlled trial of a recovery and rights training for mental health professionals with or without first person accounts.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mental health models grounded in Recovery and Rights are driving the advancement of transformative care systems through multifaceted actions, which encompass Continuing Professional Development. The objective of this work is to evaluate a training activity developed through a participatory process that included people with lived experience of psychosocial distress, their relatives, and mental health professionals.

Methods

The training focused on alternatives to diagnosis, recovery principles, rights-based care, and peer support. The evaluation followed a cluster randomized wait-list controlled design. Four hundred eighty-eight health professionals from eight care centers were randomized to three experimental conditions: a wait list control, which underwent a one

SUBMITTER: Eiroa-Orosa FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10539929 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature