Rapid realist review of organisational supports for youth peer support workers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Providing peer support can benefit youth peer support workers (peers)et by supporting self-determination, recovery and resilience to self-stigma. There is a need to clarify the role of the organisation in providing benefits for peers. We aimed to identify the organisational contexts and mechanisms that result in the creation of healthy workplaces for peers.

Design

Rapid realist review guided by the Realist and Meta-Narrative Evidence Syntheses-Evolving Standards guidelines and Pawson's iterative approach.

Data sources

MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC, SocINDEX, Google Scholar and Embase were searched from 1979 to 2025.

Eligibility criteria

We included qualitative and quantitative peer-reviewed studies and grey literature that captured characteristics

SUBMITTER: Hews-Girard J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12911817 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature