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The Illness Management and Recovery program (IMR) is developed to support people with severe mental illnesses in their recovery-process. The theory behind the program highlight the importance of helping people develop tailored illness management skills which will help achieve personal and clinical recovery. However, little is known about participants' experience with IMR in relation to their recoveryprocess. The aim of the present study is to describe the participants’ lived experience with IMR, explore whether they experienced changes, and examine how these changes related to their recovery during or after their participation in IMR. A Qualitative study. The participants’ experience with the IMR program in relation to their recovery unveiled three main themes; “Social connection with other IMR-group members’, ‘In IMR, we talked about our everyday lives with mental illness’ and ‘In IMR we learned about recovery as a personal experience’.
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The authors express their deep appreciation to the director, IMR instructors, clinicians, patients and residents associated with the CMHC Frederiksberg/Vanløse and Psychiatric Residential Klintegården and Psychiatric Residential Skovvænget who agreed to participate in this ongoing study. Furthermore, we greatly thank our funders, i.e., the Residential Skovvænget and TRYG_Foundation. Additionally, we thank the members and administrator of the advisory board with lived experiences for supporting this study.
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The funder of the study, TRYG_ Foundation and the Resident Skovvænget from the Mental Health Service in the Capital Region of Denmark, played no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report.
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Jensen, S.B., Eplov, L.F., Gammelgaard, I. et al. Participants’ Lived Experience with the Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) Program in Relation to their Recovery-Process. Community Ment Health J 55, 983–993 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-019-00383-y
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