ERIC Number: EJ1012902
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-May
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1049-7315
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Cross-Validation of Mental Health Recovery Measures in a Hong Kong Chinese Sample
Ye, Shengquan; Pan, Jia-Yan; Wong, Daniel Fu Keung; Bola, John Robert
Research on Social Work Practice, v23 n3 p311-325 May 2013
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 (0.92 to 0.96), we analyzed total scale scores. Conclusion: Moderately high correlations among the recovery measures (0.33 to 0.56) provide some support for construct validity, yet further investigation of recovery measures in a Chinese population is needed. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Mental Health, Program Validation, Foreign Countries, Social Work, Severe Disabilities, Psychometrics, Psychological Studies, Delivery Systems, Definitions, Likert Scales, Item Analysis, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Rating Scales, Adoption (Ideas), Self Evaluation (Individuals), Rehabilitation, Schizophrenia
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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