User:Scarpy/Recovery Attitudes Questionnaire

Recovery Attitudes Questionnaire-/'. The

Recovery Attitudes Questionnaire has

seven items measured on a five-point

Likert Scale ranging from Strongly

Agree to Strongly Disagree (Borkin et

al., 2000). The scale is designed to

measure two factors related to recovery:

1) recovery is possible and; 2) recovery

is difficult and it differs among

people. Test re-test reliability, internal

consistency and factorial validity were

established after administering the instrument

to 868 individuals with serious

mental illness, providers of mental

health services and the general public

(Borkin et al., 2000). The authors

began with a 21-item scale that demonstrated

an acceptable level of internal

consistency (.84 coefficient alpha).

Moderate item-to-item correlations

were found (.34 to .58), suggesting

good independence of items. However,

a series of factor analyses were conducted

and the result was a two-factor

solution having 7 items (the RAQ-7).

This solution was retained for parsimony.

The two factors tap dimensions related

to the fact that recovery requires

faith and secondly that the paths to recovery

are varied. The internal consistency

of the two subscales and the

total score were, respectively: .66, .64

and .70. Test re-test reliability with another

sample of 85 individuals provided

evidence ofstability ofthe scale,

with a .67 coefficient for an average of

19 days between administrations.

Known groups validity suggested, as

might be expected, a significant difference

among the respondent groups in

their attitudes toward recovery, with

mental health professionals having the

most positive attitudes. Concurrent validity

was suggested by analyses indicating

that suggesting more positive

attitudes among those who stated they

were in recovery (Borkin et al., 2000).