Mental health workers’ perspectives on peer support in high-, middle- and low income settings: a focus group study

Author
Charles, Ashleigh
Keyword
Peer support
Mental health
Health personnel
Date
2022

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DOI
10.1186/s12888-022-04206-5
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https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-022-04206-5
Abstract
Peer support is increasingly acknowledged as an integral part of mental health services around the world. However, most research on peer support comes from high-income countries, with little attention to similarities and differences between different settings and how these affect implementation. Mental health workers have an important role to play in integrating formal peer support into statutory services, and their attitudes toward peer support can represent either a barrier to or facilitator of successful implementation. Thus, this study investigates mental health workers’ attitudes toward peer support across a range of high- (Germany, Israel), middle- (India), and low-income country (Tanzania, Uganda) settings.
Citation
Krumm, S., Haun, M., Hiller, S., Charles, A., Kalha, J., Niwemuhwezi, J., Nixdorf, R., Puschner, B., Ryan, G., Shamba, D., et al. (2022). Mental health workers’ perspectives on peer support in high-, middle- and low income settings: a focus group study. BMC Psychiatry, 22, pp.604.
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Article
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/15783
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