Rasch analysis of the SAMHSA recovery inventory for Chinese (SAMHSA-RIC).

Aims: To generate a short version of a newly developed inventory that adopted the conceptual framework of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) consensus statement on recovery.

Methods: Through Rasch analysis, this paper presents how this recovery inventory (SAMHSA-RIC), with its original 111 items, can be reduced to a much shorter version with only 41 items.

Results: Although internal consistency is slightly lowered because of item reduction, the short version maintains satisfactory and significant correlations with quality of life measures.

Modeling self-agency among people with schizophrenia: empirical evidence for consumer-based recovery.

Background: Self-agency--the awareness of one's own capacity to make decisions and to engage in deliberate action - is often interfered with or lost during the course of severe mental illness. Most existing literature on self-agency is either of experimental or qualitative nature, and empirical evidence is scanty.

Sampling And Methods: This paper draws on a subset of empirical data from a larger recovery study that involved 204 people with schizophrenia in the community.