Initial Development of the Recovery-Oriented Services Assessment: A Collaboration With Peer-Provider Consultants

Objective: The Recovery Self-Assessment (RSA) is a reliable and valid tool used to measure recovery-oriented services. Recent studies, however, suggest that the length and reading level of the RSA makes its routine use in service settings difficult. Recognizing the importance of including people with lived experience of a mental health challenge in research processes and the need to enhance the utility of tools that measure recovery-oriented services, this paper describes an innovative researcher-peer provider consultant multistep process used to revise the provider version of the RSA to create a new instrument—the Recovery-Oriented Services Assessment (ROSA). Methods: The authors conducted an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with principal axis factoring extraction and direct oblimin rotation to evaluate the underlying structure of the provider RSA using data from mental health employees (n = 323). To triangulate the findings of the EFA, quantitative and qualitative data were collected from peer provider consultants (n = 9) on the importance of and language of RSA items. Results: EFA results indicated that a 1-factor solution provided the best fit and explained 48% of the total variance. Consultants triangulated EFA results and recommended the addition of 2 items and language revisions. These results were used to develop the ROSA—a 15-item instrument measuring recovery-oriented services with accessible language. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: Two versions of the ROSA were developed: a staff version and a people-in-services version. The ROSA may provide organizations with a more accessible way to measure the extent to which their services are recovery oriented.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Psychiatric rehabilitation journal

• Publication date

  2018-04-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1037/prj0000296PMID 29698001
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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