... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Lived experience IPA Recovery Forensic mental health Secure care COVID-19 A plethora of research looked to understand the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on the mental health and well-being of different groups in society, suggesting the effects...

... phenomenological analysis (IPA) studies (Smith, 2009). To facilitate the necessary detailed and time-consuming analysis, six to eight participants are recommended (Pietkiewicz and Smith, 2014 ; Turpin et al., 1997). In consultation with caseworkers, all female residents of the homeless shelter...

... of the study. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA; Smith et al., 1999) was used to identify themes related to how participants made sense of their past experiences and pathway into forensic services. The research took place in a large secure hospital in the UK which provides low...

...Melanie Merola Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to understand the experience of those living with the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence. Design/methodology/approach – Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyse seven interviews with Young...

..., and none has used qualitative methodology to investigate their subjective experience of a treatment programme. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was employed to gain a perspective on the patients' experience of the programme. Five previous members of the relapse prevention programme were...