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Introducing peer worker roles into UK mental health service teams: a qualitative analysis of the organisational benefits and challenges

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, May 2013
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Title
Introducing peer worker roles into UK mental health service teams: a qualitative analysis of the organisational benefits and challenges
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, May 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-188
Pubmed ID
23705767
Authors

Steve G Gillard, Christine Edwards, Sarah L Gibson, Katherine Owen, Christine Wright

Abstract

The provision of peer support as a component of mental health care, including the employment of Peer Workers (consumer-providers) by mental health service organisations, is increasingly common internationally. Peer support is strongly advocated as a strategy in a number of UK health and social care policies. Approaches to employing Peer Workers are proliferating. There is evidence to suggest that Peer Worker-based interventions reduce psychiatric inpatient admission and increase service user (consumer) empowerment. In this paper we seek to address a gap in the empirical literature in understanding the organisational challenges and benefits of introducing Peer Worker roles into mental health service teams.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 2 1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Uganda 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Unknown 177 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 18%
Researcher 31 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 23 13%
Student > Bachelor 13 7%
Other 36 20%
Unknown 23 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 48 26%
Social Sciences 37 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 28 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 9%
Unspecified 7 4%
Other 23 13%
Unknown 24 13%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 October 2020.
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#14,753,796
of 22,711,242 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#5,341
of 7,593 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#115,628
of 195,245 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#85
of 118 outputs
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