Predictive factors for referral to a peer support worker in psychosocial rehabilitation centers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Peer support workers are individuals with personal lived experience of mental health conditions, addictions, or neurodevelopmental disorders, and can be employed as professionals within mental health services. This study aims to identify predictive factors for patient referral to peer support intervention in psychosocial rehabilitation services.

Methods

Using data from the French REHABase cohort, we compared variables between patients referred (n=134) and not referred (n=242) to peer support intervention. We evaluated an expert-based model (clinician-selected variables) against a machine-based model (algorithm-selected variables) for predictive accuracy.

Results

The machine-based model outperformed the expert-based model in the full dataset (AUC = 0.78 vs

SUBMITTER: Monnier R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12554742 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature