Focusing a realist evaluation of peer support for paediatric mental health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Mental health problems are a leading and increasing cause of health-related burden in children across the world. Peer support interventions are increasingly used to meet this need using the lived experience of people with a history of mental health problems. However, much of the research underpinning this work has focused on adults, leaving a gap in knowledge about how these complex interventions may work for different children in different circumstances. Realist research may help us to understand how such complex interventions may trigger different mechanisms to produce different outcomes in children. This paper reports on an important first step in realist research, namely the construction of an embryonic initial programme theory to help 'focus' realist evaluation explo

SUBMITTER: Thompson DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10555983 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature