TY - JOUR
T1 - Sorting it out
T2 - Eliciting consumer priorities for recovery in supportive housing
AU - Choy-Brown, Mimi
AU - Padgett, Deborah K.
AU - Smith, Bikki Tran
AU - Tiderington, Emmy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/7/2
Y1 - 2016/7/2
N2 - This study aims to understand participant priorities in their personal recovery journey and their perspectives of recovery domains. A card-sort data-gathering technique was employed to elicit priorities in recovery from consumers in supportive housing programs serving adults who were formerly homeless with severe mental illnesses in New York City. Participants (N = 38) were asked to sort 12 cards printed with recovery domains in order of importance and describe the meaning attached to each domain. Mental health (95%), physical health (89%), and housing (92%) were the domains most frequently included and prioritized in the top three rankings. Family (76%) and partner (74%) were also frequently included and endorsed as most important second only to mental health. Housing was prioritized yet rated most important less often (58%). Work, school, hobbies, program, friends, and neighborhood were less frequently endorsed. “Card-sort talk” revealed critical understanding of participants’ priorities and their reasons for endorsing other domains less frequently. Most important to participants was regaining functional independence through improved mental and physical health and access to housing. With underlying principles of efficiency and empowerment, card sort is a promising engagement technique for providers to elicit consumer priorities in their own recovery.
AB - This study aims to understand participant priorities in their personal recovery journey and their perspectives of recovery domains. A card-sort data-gathering technique was employed to elicit priorities in recovery from consumers in supportive housing programs serving adults who were formerly homeless with severe mental illnesses in New York City. Participants (N = 38) were asked to sort 12 cards printed with recovery domains in order of importance and describe the meaning attached to each domain. Mental health (95%), physical health (89%), and housing (92%) were the domains most frequently included and prioritized in the top three rankings. Family (76%) and partner (74%) were also frequently included and endorsed as most important second only to mental health. Housing was prioritized yet rated most important less often (58%). Work, school, hobbies, program, friends, and neighborhood were less frequently endorsed. “Card-sort talk” revealed critical understanding of participants’ priorities and their reasons for endorsing other domains less frequently. Most important to participants was regaining functional independence through improved mental and physical health and access to housing. With underlying principles of efficiency and empowerment, card sort is a promising engagement technique for providers to elicit consumer priorities in their own recovery.
KW - Mental health recovery
KW - qualitative
KW - supportive housing
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U2 - 10.1080/15487768.2016.1197862
DO - 10.1080/15487768.2016.1197862
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84983335587
SN - 1548-7768
VL - 19
SP - 223
EP - 234
JO - American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
JF - American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
IS - 3
ER -