Gamieldien, Fadia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2820-6484
Galvaan, Roshan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0014-1842
Myers, Bronwyn http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0235-6716
Sorsdahl, Katherine http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5517-1697
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome (DEL-15-01)
Harry Crossley Foundation
Division of Research Capacity Development
University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Article History
Received: 8 December 2022
Accepted: 25 March 2023
First Online: 15 April 2023
Declarations
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: The authors reported no potential conflict of interest.
: Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in this study.
: All participants provided informed consent to publish the images used in the photovoice project.
: Approval for this study was granted by the Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee (HREC 655/2018) at the University of Cape Town in the Western Cape and the Western Cape Province's Health Research Committee (WC_201902_010).
: To our knowledge, there are limited qualitative studies on service user views on personal recovery from SMHCs in South Africa. However, the findings suggest that mental health service transformation must involve service user and caregiver perspectives to inform recovery-based services.