Abstract
This study aimed to qualitatively explore the views of mental health care providers about what is important regarding the support for recovery of people with mental illness in their facilities or units. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey including an open-ended question was conducted among mental health care providers. We used data from 125 participants for the content analyses (valid response rate = 26.3%). The main categories extracted were as follows: “an equal relationship with service users”, “sharing of information among inter-professional care providers”, “encouraging them to try something new”, “trustworthy relationship”, “mind as a professional”, “education for care providers”,
“focusing on the strengths of service users”, “social resource utilization” , “seeing and hearing the person who has recovered”. Such categories were divided into types of the individual relationship between the mental health care provider and people with mental illness, views / experience / skills of mental health care providers, and practices as a team or organization.
