Background: Recovery is an essential construct in healthcare treatment for patients diagnosed with severe mental illnesses (SMI). Of all the psychometric instruments available for measuring recovery, the 41-item Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS) is the most widely used. Several brief versions have been proposed, including the 24-item version. In this study, the RAS-24 was adapted to European Spanish and validated in a clinical sample.
Method: Participants ( N = 309) diagnosed with SMI were recruited from a community mental health center and a work guidance center. The participants completed the RAS-24 and the Social Functioning Scale (SFS), both self-reported and family-reported versions.
Results: The results showed good indices of fit for the original five-factor structure, acceptable internal consistency (α = .93; ω = .95), temporal reliability ( ICC = .89, p <.01), and significant correlation with most of the SFS scales (total SFS self-report r = .50, p <.01; total SFS family reported r =.49, p <.01).
Conclusions: These data support the use of this Spanish version as a measure of recovery in the Spanish clinical population.