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Table 2 Innovation groups, definitions, and corresponding studies

From: Factors influencing the implementation of mental health recovery into services: a systematic mixed studies review

 

Innovation group (cases)

Definition

Studies*

1

E-innovations

Online innovations such as websites and smartphone apps.

[85,86,87,88,89,90]

2

Family-focused innovations

Innovations specifically aimed at mental health service users who are parents.

[91,92,93]

3

Peer workers

Innovations centred on the employment of people with lived experience of mental health problems.

[94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104], [105,106,107,108,109], [110], [111,112,113,114,115]

4

Personal recovery planning

New approaches to writing plans within service provider–service user encounters.

[109, 116,117,118,119,120,121], [115, 122], [123, 124]

5

Recovery colleges

Education programs offering courses to service users and service providers on recovery and other topics in mental health.

[125,126,127,128,129]

6

Service navigation and coordination

Innovations aimed at wraparound care, care coordination, and client access to services across health and social services.

[104, 130, 131], [110, 132], [133, 134]

7

Staff training

Training programs for staff in mental health recovery.

[18, 135,136,137,138,139]

8

Architecture

Not included in synthesis.

See Additional file 7 for details.

[140,141,142,143,144]

9

Community connections

10

Consumer-led advisory councils

11

Personal budgets

12

Sport

Other

Perspectives on implementing recovery-oriented services in general

Not included in synthesis.

See Additional file 7 for details.

[115, 145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153]

  1. *The following studies appear under more than one innovation group because the innovation crosses two categories and findings related to each are reported [104, 109, 110, 155]. For Smith-Merry et al. [155], only the data reported about peer workers and wellness recovery action planning were included in Synthesis Part 2