Implementing peer support into practice in mental health services: a qualitative comparative case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peer workers are people with personal experience of mental distress, employed within mental health services to support others with similar experiences. Research has identified a range of factors that might facilitate or hinder the introduction of new peer worker roles into mental health services. While there is mixed evidence for the effectiveness of peer worker delivered interventions, there are no studies exploring how implementation might be associated with effect.

Methods

This was a qualitative comparative case study using data from interviews with 20 peer workers and their five supervisors. Peer workers delivered peer support for discharge from inpatient to community mental health care as part of a randomised controlled trial. In the trial, level of participa

SUBMITTER: Gillard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11391751 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature