Table 4 Most frequent six signs of recovery used in QCA analysis.
Code | Code description | Recovery signs from the inductive analysis constituting the code | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
healthyrel | Having healthy relationships with family, friends, and community members | • Spends time with friends/family/socializing | 49 |
• Communicates in normal way/good way | |||
• Good relationships with others | |||
• Involved in community activity (e.g. women’s organization)/gatherings | |||
• Treats others respectfully/non-abusively | |||
• Tries to help others | |||
• Opens up/shares problems with people | |||
work/study | Being engaged in a constructive activity (work or study) | • Got job/started business/farming/gone back to school or college | 45 |
• Actively involved in or concentrating on work/school/other activities | |||
percare | Taking care of oneself | • Dresses well/good personal hygiene | 30 |
• Stopped drinking/smoking/drug use/gambling | |||
• Eating well (good appetite) | |||
• Does enjoyable activities (e.g. listens to music/walks on beach) | |||
• Takes medication as prescribed | |||
• Avoiding negative friends | |||
faith | Having religious beliefs and/or engaging in faith-related practices | • Goes for prayers/to church/mosque | 25 |
• Grateful/thankful to God | |||
newrel | Building new relationships (e.g. getting married) | • Started new relationship (partner/spouse) | 21 |
hope | Having hopes/plans/positive beliefs for future | • Hope that life will improve | 17 |
• Makes decisions about how to move forward/plans for future | |||
• Believes that there is still some good in life/all is not lost/has courage. |
