Measuring recovery-oriented rehabilitation language in clinical documentation to enhance recovery-oriented practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health services are encouraged to use language consistent with principles of recovery-oriented practice. This study presents a novel approach for identifying whether clinical documentation contains recovery-oriented rehabilitation language, and evaluates an intervention to improve the language used within a community-based rehabilitation team.

Aims

This is a pilot study of training to enhance recovery-oriented rehabilitation language written in care review summaries, as measured through a text-based analysis of language used in mental health clinical documentation.

Method

Eleven case managers participated in a programme that included instruction in recovery-oriented rehabilitation principles. Outcomes were measured with automated textual analysis of

SUBMITTER: De Monte V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9970174 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature