Development of a peer support intervention to improve the experience and outcomes of discharge from inpatient mental health care: the role of experiential knowledge in a coproduced approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Peer support is rapidly being introduced into mental health services internationally, yet peer support interventions are often poorly described, limiting the usefulness of research in informing policy and practice. This paper reports the development of a peer support intervention that aims to improve outcomes of discharge from inpatient to community mental health care. People with experiential knowledge of using mental health services-peer workers and service user researchers-were involved in all stages of developing the intervention: generating intervention components; producing the intervention handbook; piloting the intervention.

Results

Systematic review and expert panels, including our Lived Experience Advisory Panel, identified 66 candidate intervention comp

SUBMITTER: Marks J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8379721 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature