Impact of Mental Health Recovery Projects on Community Residents

Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Research Proposal
Name of the Student
Name of University
Author’s note

1RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Significance......................................................................................................2
2. Background and Rationale...........................................................................................................2
2.1 Background............................................................................................................................2
2.2 Rationale................................................................................................................................4
2.3 Theoretical framework...............................................................................................................4
3. Description of the Project............................................................................................................5
3.1 Over-arching research question.............................................................................................5
3.2 Suppositions...........................................................................................................................5
3.3 Research objectives...............................................................................................................5
4. Research design...........................................................................................................................6
4.1 Qualitative Research Approach.............................................................................................6
4.2 Methodological framework: Phenomenology framework.....................................................6
5. Research Process.........................................................................................................................8
5.1 Research participants.............................................................................................................8
5.2 Recruitment process...............................................................................................................9
5.3 Sampling Process...................................................................................................................9
5.4 Method of data collection....................................................................................................10
5.5 Interview guide....................................................................................................................10
5.6 Data analysis........................................................................................................................10

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6.0 Anticipated outcomes..............................................................................................................11
6.1 Anticipated outcomes of the study......................................................................................11
6.2 Anticipated ethical issues....................................................................................................11
7. Limitations of the study.............................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13
Appendix........................................................................................................................................16
Appendix I: Interview Questions...............................................................................................16
Appendix II: Timeline of research.............................................................................................18

3RESEARCH PROPOSAL
1.Introduction and Significance
This research proposal aims towards examining the overall impact of the mental health
recovery projects in allowing the community residents suffering from mental illness to return to
their work field and to lead a purposeful life. It will be qualitative study that will adopt
phenomenological analysis as the main methodological framework. The selected group of
participants will be the nurses who have more than one year of experience in handling the
community dwelling patients suffering from the mental health complications. All the nurses who
will be selected for the process of interview will be registered nurses under the Australian
healthcare settings and who can speak English. The nurses with 5 years or more professional life
in the Bundoora Extended Care Centre Community Therapy Services or Broadmeadows Health
Services will be the prospective candidates. The research will use semi-structure in-depth
interview for the process of data collection and thematic analysis of the data. The research will
be help to bring necessary modifications in the process of community based mental health
service planning based on the perception of the nurses.
2. Background and Rationale
2.1 Background
An understanding of the recovery as a subjective and personal experience has generated
within the healthcare of the mental illness. Proper implementation of the recovery oriented
approach in the mental health recovery helps to promote faster recovery of the patients who are
suffering from mental health complications like depression, anxiety, tendency of self-harm,
bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or in extreme cases dementia and