Implementing a complex intervention to support personal recovery: a qualitative study nested within a cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate staff and trainer perspectives on the barriers and facilitators to implementing a complex intervention to help staff support the recovery of service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis in community mental health teams.

Design

Process evaluation nested within a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Participants

28 interviews with mental health care staff, 3 interviews with trainers, 4 focus groups with intervention teams and 28 written trainer reports.

Setting

14 community-based mental health teams in two UK sites (one urban, one semi-rural) who received the intervention.

Results

The factors influencing the implementation of the intervention can be organised under two over-arching themes: Organisational readiness for

SUBMITTER: Leamy M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4038471 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature