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BEHANDLING-God og treffsikker diagnostikk, behandling og rehabilitering

From double trouble to dual recovery: Increasing recovery-oriented rehabilitation(ROR)and quality of life through collaborative partnership

Alternative title: Recovery orientert rehabilitering hos personer med samtidige psykisk helse- og ruslidelser i kommunale botiltak: Livskvalitet og hverdagsliv

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

The research project is related to recovery oriented rehabilitation (ROR), quality of life and everyday life issues for persons experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance misuse living in supported housing. Service users, professionals and researcher collaborate throughout the research project. This action research has both a qualitative and a quantitative component. The main aim is to develop knowledge about the helpful elements in ROR and disseminate the research results to Norwegian municipalities. Other objectives are exploring if this ROR-model improves the service users quality of live and everyday life situation. The service users quality of live and everyday life situation will be compared with supported housing in other municipalities without ROR support. Professionals experiences will also be explored. The project will investigate if ROR differ from more general rehabilitation programs. The project ends by 31st of December 2022. However, also after this date, there wilb be published further scientific works in the forms of papers and PhD-thesises.

Prosjektet har på et overordnet nivå utviklet kunnskap om virksomme elementer i recovery-orientert rehabilitering (ROR) for personer med samtidige rus- og psykiske lidelser og som bor i kommunalt botiltak. Slik kunnskap i en norsk kontekst har manglet, men er etterspurt i nasjonale retningslinjer på feltet. Formidling og bruk av kunnskapen vil kunne ha virkninger både med henyn til kompetanse og faglig praksis. Kunnskap om ansattes erfaringer vil på samme måte kunne ha virkninger med hensyn til utøvelsen av tjenester og for arbeidsmiljø. Samarbeidet med relevante fagmiljø ved Yale University vil også fremover styrke det internasjonale samarbeidet om disse utfordringene. Resultatene belyser individuelle og strukturelle forhold av betydning for recovery-orientert rehabilitering som gjør det sannsynlig at stigma knyttet til denne typen livsutfordringer kan reduseres, i tråd med helsemyndighetenes ønsker. Prosjektets resultater vil inngå i relevante høgskole- og universitetsutdanningers litteraturlister.

Persons living with DUD are more likely than those with single mental health and substance abuse related diagnosis to have a poor quality of life and a low level of functioning in everyday life. They are often referred to as "complex" and "difficult to help", and there are documented inaccessible and unavailable tailored service systems. Persons living with DUD have typically fallen between, or been bounced, back and forth between different systems of care. In order to abate fragmented services, a comprehensive, integrated service approach has been recommended. The municipalities and the professional practitioners at the local level has by laws and regulations got new tasks towards persons living with long-term and complex needs. At this level, there is an increasing support for recovery-oriented rehabilitation aiming at improved quality of life and everyday life, including environmental restorativeness. We derived our research focus by identifying the resent knowledge base of dual recovery. The main research strategy in this project is based on action research methodology, with use of a mixed method design combining a qualitative component applying a co-operative inquiry and a quantitative component applying relevant questionnaires. This approach is deemed appropriate, as the objective is to develop and evaluate the principles and practices of recovery-oriented rehabilitation within the mental health and substance abuse services from various perspectives, and to develop/compare new knowledge/model about the meaning of recovery-oriented rehabilitation and quality of life for people living with dual diagnosis. As in our three earlier NRC research projects, a competence group will be established to work with the research team in all stages of the research. The competence group will consist of service users and professionals. Inspired by the concept of participatory research, this group will participate in developing the research project in detail.

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BEHANDLING-God og treffsikker diagnostikk, behandling og rehabilitering