Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of strengths model case management (SMCM) with Chinese mental health service users in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Strengths-based approaches mobilise individual and environmental resources that can facilitate the recovery of people with mental illness. Strengths model case management (SMCM), developed by Rapp and Goscha through collaborative efforts at the University of Kansas, offers a structured and innovative intervention. As evidence of the effectiveness of strengths-based interventions come from Western studies, which lacked rigorous research design or failed to assure fidelity to the model, we aim to fill these gaps and conduct a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test the effectiveness of SMCM for individuals with mental illness in Hong Kong.

Methods and analysis

This will be an RCT of SMCM. Assuming a medium intervention effect (Cohen's d=0.60) with 30% missing da

SUBMITTER: Tse S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6538015 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature