Summary information

Study title

Richmond Fellowship of Australia, 1983

Creator

Manning, N. P., University of Kent at Canterbury, Faculty of Social Sciences

Lees, J. D., University of Queensland

Study number / PID

2100 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2100-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To describe the philosophy, practices and costs of the Richmond Fellowship of Australia's halfway houses for the mentally ill, and to evaluate the effectiveness of these houses
Main Topics:

Variables
Local state health policy priorities. Nature, practices and perceptions of main referral agents. Architectural features, policies, resources, social 'atmosphere', time-table, and costs of each house. Social histories, judgements about group activities, and perceptions of treatment processes of both staff and residents. Measures of present and past state of residents' psychological well-being.
Measurement Scales
House charactistics: the Multiphasic Environmental Assessment Procedure (R.H. Moos, <i>M.E.A.P., Preliminary Manual</i>, Social Ecology Laboratory, Stanford Univ. Medical School)
Staff/resident judgements and perceptions: opinions about treatment (treatment values) questionaire; rank ordering of helpful group activities (N. Manning, 'Implementing ideals', in R.D. Thistlewood and N. Manning (eds), <i>Therapeutic Communities</i>, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979)
Residents' psychological state: Kelly Grid; General Health Questionnaire; outcome questionnaire

Health care services and policies

Data collection period

01/07/1983 - 01/09/1983

Country

Australia

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Groups

National

Mental health workers

Mentally ill

Richmond Fellowship Houses

Therapeutic communities

Universe

All Richmond Fellowship Houses dealing with adults, which were fully operational, including all main referrers, all staff and residents and the relevant local health department policy makers and the central government social security policy-makers.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Postal survey

Psychological measurements

(policy-makers and referrers)

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1986

Terms of data access

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Lees, J. and Manning, N. (1985) Australian community care, a study of the Richmond Fellowship [Research report], University of Kent: Australian Commonwealth Dept of Health.