An Exploration of the Use and Usefulness of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR)

ABSTRACT

Purpose

Without accurate information, personal recovery will remain in the shadow of other clinical measures of the mental health experience, such as severity of symptoms and degree of risk.

Methods

This study examined utility of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR) to highlight personal recovery preferences and needs, from a service user perspective, within a sub-acute setting in Australia.

Results

Fifty-seven QPRs were completed and the results were evaluated against the CHIME framework. The QPR highlighted the interpersonal and intrapersonal factors that support and impede personal recovery.

Discussion

The QPR helps service users to identify and build on their own strengths and encourages clinicians to focus on service users’ personal aspirations, rather than predefined treatment goals.

Conclusions

No single scale will provide a full picture of someone’s emotional wellbeing. A range of outcome measures should be used to get a more complete picture. The QPR could be standardized as one of the routine outcome measures used in Victorian mental health services.

KEYWORDS:

• Mental health
• QPR
• recovery-oriented practice
• sub-acute

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.