Exploring the perceptions of the multidisciplinary team in mental health toward recovery of mental health in Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

There are often constraints and obstacles for those experiencing problems with mental health when accessing care provided by mental health multidisciplinary teams. Saudi Arabia has relatively little literature on the subject of mental health recovery. The purpose of this study was to explore the perception of experienced mental health practitioners of the concept of recovery and its role in the delivery of mental health care services in Saudi Arabia. A constructivist phenomenological qualitative inquiry using 10 multidisciplinary mental health practitioners based at a governmental hospital participated in focus group guided interviews. Analysis of interview content was assisted by software NVivo 10.1. The two main emergent themes of the data were: (a) the perception of the recovery concept (subthemes: meaning of recovery, perception of recovery in mental health, the understanding of holistic recovery, and knowledge and background), and (b) delivery of recovery in mental health care services (subthemes: practicing experience and effective recovery). Results of the analysis may allow improvement of recovery aimed mental health in Saudi Arabia. Effective communication with patients and their relatives, professional education, and policy changes may assist in enhanced recovery.

KEYWORDS:

• Recovery
• mental-health
• multidisciplinary-team
• health-services

Author contributions

SAY conceived the study and collected the data. SAH determined the methodology and wrote the background section, SAY wrote the discussion. Both authors reviewed and amended the manuscript before submitting for publication.

Declaration of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest with research or writing of this paper.

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Funding

The authors thank the Deanship of Scientific Research, College of Nursing Research Centre at King Saud University for funding this research.