Peer support workers in co-production and co-creation in public mental health and addiction services: Protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Worldwide, there is a growing interest to employ people with lived experiences in health and social services. Particularly in mental health and addiction services, individuals with lived experience of mental health problems enter the workplace as peer support workers (PSW´s). Their aim in the services is to bring in the perspective of service users in interactive processes at the micro and macro levels. The services´ ability to exploit the knowledge from PSW´s lived experiences will influence both the content and quality of the services, its effectiveness and its capacity to innovate and change. The concepts of co-production and co-creation are used to describe these interactive processes in the services in the literature. While co-production is aimed at improving individual services, co-c

SUBMITTER: Aakerblom KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7959669 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature