Peer Support for People Living With HIV: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Peer support for people living with HIV has gained increasing traction and is considered a way to take an active role in self-management. The existing research examining peer support interventions has reported promising evidence of the benefits of peer support. The purpose of our scoping review was to describe research on peer support for people living with HIV. We included 53 studies and sorted them into analytic categories and conducted descriptive analyses. The studies that were published between November/December 2000 and May 2021, had a range of study designs and heterogeneous priority groups, and included 20,657 participants from 16 countries. We identified 43 evaluations of the effect of peer support and 10 evaluations of implementation, process, feasibility, cost of peer support. W

SUBMITTER: Ogard-Repal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9806454 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature