Understanding Users' Perspectives of Psychosocial Mechanisms Underpinning Peer Support Work in Chile.

ABSTRACT: This study explores the beliefs and attitudes about the psychosocial mechanisms of peer support work among users who participated in Critical Time Intervention-Task Shifting (CTI-TS), which tested the acceptability and feasibility of a peer support work model to improve community-based mental health care for individuals with psychosis in Latin America. We conducted a secondary analysis of 15 in-depth interviews with CTI-TS participants in Chile, using the framework method and defined the framework domains based on five major mechanisms of peer support work identified by a recent literature review. The analysis revealed that users' perceptions of peer support work mechanisms were strongly shaped by personal motivations, beliefs about professional hierarchies, familial support, and the Chile

SUBMITTER: Le PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8408283 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature