Background Over the last three decades, there has been worldwide recognition of peer
support contributions to improve mental healthcare provision. However, in the current …

Objective: This paper describes outcome and feasibility findings for a novel, brief
intervention to facilitate discharge from lengthy psychiatric hospitalization. The examination …

Objective: The study aimed to clarify the potential role and impact of behavioral health peer
support providers on community hospital acute inpatient psychiatric units. Method …

Objectives Peer support is rapidly being introduced into mental health services
internationally, yet peer support interventions are often poorly described, limiting the …

The employment of peer providers (people who draw on their lived experience of mental
health challenges) has grown in conjunction with the increased acceptance of recovery as a …

Effective discharge planning is needed to facilitate clients' transition from psychiatric hospital
wards to community care. Previous studies have shown that client outcomes can be …

Background Rates of readmission are high following discharge from psychiatric inpatient
care. Evidence suggests that transitional interventions incorporating peer support might …

Methods: This protocol describes an individually randomized controlled superiority trial,
hypothesizing that people offered a peer worker discharge intervention in addition to usual …

The Transitional Discharge Model (TDM) has been used to facilitate effective discharge from
psychiatric hospital to community. A summary of the research to date on TDM is given. The …

Background Peer support is an essential part of recovery-oriented care worldwide.
Contextual factors have an impact on the implementation of peer support work. However …