Service user engagement: a co-created interview schedule exploring mental health recovery in young adults
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AIM: The aim of this study was to co-create of an interview schedule exploring mental health recovery in collaboration with young adult service users. BACKGROUND: Service user involvement in research has been increasingly recognized as providing a vital authentic insight into mental health recovery. Engagement and collaboration with service users have facilitated the exploration of inaccessible or under-investigated aspects of the lived experience of mental health recovery, not only directing the trajectory of research, but making it relevant to their own contextual experience. DESIGN: A qualitative content analysis framework was employed in the co-creation of a semi-structured interview schedule through an engagement process with service users. METHODS: Two separate engagement groups took place at the premises of the service user organizations, between January - February 2014. Miles and Huberman's analysis framework was chosen for this phase as it enabled the visual presentation of factors, concepts or variables and the established relationship between them. RESULTS: The lived experience of mental ill health in young adulthood and how this was understood by others was a particularly relevant theme for participants. Further themes were identified between the impact of painful experiences at this developmental life stage leading to a deeper understanding of others through finding meaning in their own mental health recovery journey. CONCLUSION: Our findings identified that suffering painful experiences is an integral aspect in the process of mental health recovery. This understanding has particular relevance to mental health nursing practice, ensuring the care delivered is cognizant of the suffering or painful experiences that young adults are encountering.
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- Authors
- McCauley, C., McKenna, H., Keeney, S., & McLaughlin, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Ulster (GB)
- Corresponding author
- McCauley, Claire‐Odile
- Venue
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-05-11
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2361-2372
- ISSN
- 0309-2402 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2648
- OpenAlex
- W2604250355
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 3.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- pure.ulster.ac.uk
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Advanced Nursing (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ulster University Research Portal (Ulster University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Northern Ireland Assembly's Department of Education and Learning
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Keywords
- mental health recovery, young adults, service user engagement, meaning-making, psychiatric nursing practice
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Mental Disorders, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Northern Ireland, Reproducibility of Results, Young Adult
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