Peer support for discharge from hospital to community mental health care: a cost analysis

Citation

Healy A, Patel A, Marks J, Bremner S, Foster R, Gibson SL, Goldsmith LP, Lucock M, Repper J, Rinaldi M, Simpson A, White S, Ussher M & Gillard S (2025) Peer support for discharge from hospital to community mental health care: a cost analysis. General Psychiatry, 38 (1), Art. No.: e101671. https://doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2024-101671

Abstract
First paragraph: Peer workers—people with personal experiences of using mental health services, trained to provide support to others currently using similar services—are increasingly integrated into the workforce of mental health systems internationally.1 A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of individual peer support in mental health services indicated a modestly significant effect of peer support on measures of self-reported recovery and empowerment compared with care as usual, also showing that peer support was associated with a reduction in the relative risk of psychiatric hospital admission of 14% compared with care as usual

Keywords
Mental Health Services; Community Mental Health Services

Journal
General Psychiatry: Volume 38, Issue 1

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