Abstract
Objectives: The concept of recovery has begun shifting mental health service delivery from a medical perspective toward a client-centered recovery orientation. This shift is also beginning in Hong Kong, but its development is hampered by a dearth of available measures in Chinese. Method: This article translates two measures of recovery (mental health recovery measure and the recovery subscale of peer outcomes protocol) and one measure of recovery-promoting environments (recovery self-assessment) into Chinese and investigates their psychometric properties among 206 Hong Kong Chinese people with severe mental illness. Result: Multifactor solutions from earlier studies were not replicated; our evidence pointed to one-factor solutions. Since all recovery measures demonstrated high internal consistency reliability (.92 to .96), we analyzed total scale scores. Conclusion: Moderately high correlations among the recovery measures (.33 to .56) provide some support for construct validity, yet further investigation of recovery measures in a Chinese population is needed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 311-325 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Research on Social Work Practice |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2013 |
User-Defined Keywords
- Hong Kong Chinese
- mental health recovery
- scale validation
- schizophrenia
