Mental health and wellbeing Mental and Behavioural Disorders
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Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Study 1: Student participants: 1. Aged 18 years or over 2. Capacity to give informed consent 3. Currently using the local secondary NHS mental health service 4. Newly enrolled at a participating Recovery College Staff participants: 1. Aged 18 years or over 2. Capacity to give informed consent 3. Recovery College staff whether on substantive, sessional, casual and voluntary contracts Study 2: Student participants: 1. Aged 18 years or over 2. Capacity to give informed consent 3. Currently using the local secondary NHS mental health service 4. Newly enrolled at a participating Recovery College 5. Consent to clinical records access Control participants: 1. Aged 18 years or over 2. Capacity to give informed consent 3. Currently using the local secondary NHS mental health service 4. Not a current or past student at any Recovery College Staff participants: 1. Aged 18 years or over 2. Capacity to give informed consent 3. Recovery College staff whether on substantive, sessional, casual and voluntary contracts Study 3: Student participants: 1. Aged 18 years or over 2. Capacity to give informed consent 3. Currently or previously enrolled as a student in a Recovery College at a participating site Staff participants: 1. Aged 18 years or over 2. Capacity to give informed consent 3. Current or previous staff involved in the funding, commissioning, set-up, development, or running of the Recovery College
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: All Recovery Colleges: 1. Do not meet the inclusion criteria Study 1: Student participants: Not currently using the local secondary NHS mental health service Study 2: Student participants: 1. Not currently using the local secondary NHS mental health service 2. Not willing to allow access to clinical records (can still take part in Study 1 if a sample of 48 at that site not exceeded) Control participants: 1. Currently, or previously, enrolled at a Recovery College Study 3: Staff and student participants: 1. Have not attended, worked at, or been involved with (in a decision-making capacity), a Recovery College participating in Study 3
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Study 1 and Study 2: Student and control participants’ quality of life measured by the Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life at baseline and 4, 8 and 12 months follow-up Study 3: None as it is a qualitative study | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Study 1 and Study 2: Student and control participants (assessed at baseline and 4, 8 and 12 months follow-up): 1. Recovery assessed using the Mental Health Confidence Scale 2. Recovery assessed using the Brief INSPIRE-O 3. Social inclusion assessed using the Social Inclusion Scale/Measure 4. Resilience assessed using the Brief Resilience Scale 5. Health economics assessed using information about service use 6. Hope assessed using the Herth Hope Index 7. Social networks assessed using the Lubben Social Network Scale 6 8. Health-related quality of life assessed using EQ-5D-5 9. Wellbeing assessed using the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (short version) 10. Recovery College change mechanisms assessed using questions on how students view the Recovery College created for the study 11. Students’ goal attainment assessed using questions Staff participants (assessed at a single timepoint): 1. Recovery College change mechanisms assessed using questions on how staff view the Recovery College created for the study 2. Fidelity assessed using the Recovery College Fidelity Measure (only completed by the Recovery College Manager or nominated individual in a Senior Leadership position) Study 3: None as this is a qualitative study | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
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