Cross-Validation of Mental Health Recovery Measures in a Hong Kong Chinese Sample

• Published in: Research on social work practice Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 311 - 325
• Main Authors: Ye, Shengquan, Pan, Jia-Yan, Wong, Daniel Fu Keung, Bola, John Robert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-05-2013; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adoption (Ideas); Asian Cultural Groups; Asian people; Chinese people; Definitions; Delivery Systems; Foreign Countries; Hong Kong; Item Analysis; Likert Scales; Medicine; Mental disorders; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Mental Illness; Mentally ill people; Peers; Program Validation; Psychological Studies; Psychometric properties; Psychometrics; Quantitative psychology; Rating Scales; Recovery; Rehabilitation; Schizophrenia; Self evaluation; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Severe Disabilities; Social Work; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Hong Kong; Hong Kong China; China; mental health recovery; Hong Kong Chinese; schizophrenia; scale validation
• ISSN: 1049-7315; 1552-7581
• DOI: 10.1177/1049731512471861

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 (.92 to .96), we analyzed total scale scores. Conclusion: Moderately high correlations among the recovery measures (.33 to .56) provide some support for construct validity, yet further investigation of recovery measures in a Chinese population is needed.