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What do peer support workers do? A job description

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, July 2012
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Title
What do peer support workers do? A job description
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, July 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-12-205
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Authors

Nora Jacobson, Lucy Trojanowski, Carolyn S Dewa

Abstract

The extant literature suggests that poorly defined job roles make it difficult for peer support workers to be successful, and hinder their integration into multi-disciplinary workplace teams. This article uses data gathered as part of a participatory evaluation of a peer support program at a psychiatric tertiary care facility to specify the work that peers do.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 2 <1%
New Zealand 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 202 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 15%
Researcher 28 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 10%
Student > Bachelor 19 9%
Other 37 18%
Unknown 46 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 37 18%
Social Sciences 36 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 17 8%
Other 22 10%
Unknown 53 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 05 January 2017.
All research outputs
#6,361,615
of 22,671,366 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,068
of 7,577 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44,843
of 163,942 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#40
of 122 outputs
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