Peer support for people with severe mental illness versus usual care in high-, middle-and low-income countries: study protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre …

GS Moran, J Kalha, AS Mueller-Stierlin, R Kilian… - Trials, 2020 - Springer
Background Peer support is an established intervention involving a person recovering from
mental illness supporting others with mental illness. Peer support is an under-used resource …

The effectiveness, implementation, and experiences of peer support approaches for mental health: a systematic umbrella review

RE Cooper, KRK Saunders, A Greenburgh, P Shah… - BMC medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background Peer support for mental health is recommended across international policy
guidance and provision. Our systematic umbrella review summarises evidence on the …

Effectiveness of one-to-one peer support for patients with severe mental illness–a randomised controlled trial

CI Mahlke, S Priebe, K Heumann, A Daubmann… - European …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundOne-to-one peer support is a resource-oriented approach for patients with
severe mental illness. Existing trials provided inconsistent results and commonly have …

Peer support services for individuals with serious mental illnesses: assessing the evidence

M Chinman, P George, RH Dougherty… - Psychiatric …, 2014 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective This review assessed the level of evidence and effectiveness of peer support
services delivered by individuals in recovery to those with serious mental illnesses or co …

Effectiveness of peer-delivered interventions for severe mental illness and depression on clinical and psychosocial outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

DC Fuhr, TT Salisbury, MJ De Silva, N Atif… - Social psychiatry and …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate the effectiveness of peer-delivered interventions in improving clinical
and psychosocial outcomes among individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) or …

Results of a pilot randomised controlled trial to measure the clinical and cost effectiveness of peer support in increasing hope and quality of life in mental health …

A Simpson, C Flood, J Rowe, J Quigley, S Henry… - BMC psychiatry, 2014 - Springer
Background Mental health patients can feel anxious about losing the support of staff and
patients when discharged from hospital and often discontinue treatment, experience relapse …

A systematic review of the attributes and outcomes of peer work and guidelines for reporting studies of peer interventions

AJ King, MB Simmons - Psychiatric Services, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objectives: The purpose of this review was to describe key attributes and outcome measures
reported in controlled trials of peer work, identify outcome measures likely to report …

Family intervention (brief) for schizophrenia

U Okpokoro, CE Adams… - Cochrane Database of …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Supportive, positive family environments have been shown to improve
outcomes for patients with schizophrenia in contrast with family environments that express …

[HTML][HTML] Using peer support in developing empowering mental health services (UPSIDES): background, rationale and methodology

B Puschner, J Repper, C Mahlke, R Nixdorf… - Annals of Global …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Peers are people with lived experience of mental illness. Peer support is an
established intervention in which peers offer support to others with mental illness. A large …

Peer support among persons with severe mental illnesses: a review of evidence and experience

L Davidson, K Guy - World psychiatry, 2012 - Elsevier
Peer support is largely considered to represent a recent advance in community mental
health, introduced in the 1990s as part of the mental health service user movement. Actually …