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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 174 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 31 17%
Student > Master 30 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 14%
Unspecified 19 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 11%
Other 39 22%
Unknown 17 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 47 26%
Social Sciences 37 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 27 15%
Unspecified 19 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 8%
Other 18 10%
Unknown 18 10%

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.
All research outputs
#12,172,257
of 19,140,651 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#4,563
of 6,451 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#96,296
of 169,949 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#8
of 9 outputs
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