Introduction
psychiatric disabilities, Psychiatric disabilities
Psychiatric disabilities occur when mental health conditions and environmental barriers inhibit individuals in engaging in everyday activities such as work and civic life [We developed Meaningful Activities and Recovery (MA&R), a co-led peer occupational therapy intervention, to enable engagement in meaningful activities among people with psychiatric disabilities. The intervention was investigated in a multicenter, statistician-blinded RCT. The RCT compared the effectiveness of two interventions: 1) MA&R in addition to standard mental health care and 2) standard mental health care. We hypothesized that MA&R in addition to standard mental health care was more effective in improving activity engagement than standard mental health care alone when using the self-report version of the Profiles of Occupational Engagement in people with Severe Mental Illness (POES-S) instrument [