Peer support for people with chronic conditions: a systematic review of reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with chronic conditions experience functional impairment, lower quality of life, and greater economic hardship and poverty. Social isolation and loneliness are common for people with chronic conditions, with multiple co-occurring chronic conditions predicting an increased risk of loneliness. Peer support is a socially driven intervention involving people with lived experience of a condition helping others to manage the same condition, potentially offering a sense of connectedness and purpose, and experiential knowledge to manage disease. However, it is unclear what outcomes are important to patients across the spectrum of chronic conditions, what works and for whom. The aims of this review were to (1) collate peer support intervention components, (2) collate the o

SUBMITTER: Thompson DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8973527 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature