The Grow to Recovery Train-the-Trainer Program

National Cheng-Kung University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Disorders; Recovery

Treatments: Behavioral: The Grow to Recovery Train-the-Trainer program; Other: Control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05607875

B-ER-108-428

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recovery-oriented services are becoming popular in the mental health field. However, recovery-oriented services are still in the beginning stages in Taiwan. Many professionals do not know how to implement recovery-oriented services. More effort should be made to improve mental health services in Taiwan. Hence, the aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the Grow to Recovery Train-the-Trainer program.

Full description

The study will verify the effectiveness of the Train-the-Trainer program with the cluster randomized controlled trial design. The resesarchers will recruit 10 psychiatric rehabilitation organizations, including 80 mental health professionals and 160 people with mental illness. The professionals of the intervention group will receive a online training and then conduct a 5-month recovery group. The organization-level and service user assessments will be collected to examine the overall outcomes.

Enrollment: 170 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Professionals:

1. working in the community psychiatric rehabilitation organizations
2. being willing to participate in the study

People with mental illness

1. having a diagnosis of mental illness
2. living in the community
3. being age 20 yr or older
4. receiving services from the collaborating organizations
5. filling out the scales independently
6. being able to participate in a recovery group and follow the group rules

Exclusion criteria

• attending another recovery-related group

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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170 participants in 2 patient groups

The Grow to Recovery train-the-trainer group

Experimental group

Description:

Professionals of the train-the-trainer group will receive an online training and then conduct a recovery group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Grow to Recovery Train-the-Trainer program

Control group

Other group

Description:

Professionals of the control group will not receive training.

Treatment:

Other: Control group