Measuring recovery in high-security patients: psychometric evaluation of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery and its utility to assess the forensic recovery journey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Forensic mental health services need a reliable and repeatable outcome measure to assess the progression of self-rated recovery during the forensic journey. The Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR) was developed in individuals with psychosis, and has been used to assess recovery in people with severe mental illness; however, its psychometric properties have not been studied in a forensic psychiatric cohort.

Aims

This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the QPR in a sample of individuals who currently access, or formerly accessed, high-security psychiatric care, including internal consistency, test-retest reliability, factor structure and criterion validity.

Method

Psychometric analysis was undertaken in a sample of 146 current

SUBMITTER: Gilling L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12835695 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature