Peer Support Intervention
- Pfeiffer, Heisler, Piette, Rogers, Valenstein in their paper Efficacy of peer support interventions for depression: a meta-analysis suggest peer support as a intervention to deal with depression.
- “Peer support services bring together nonprofessionals with similar stressors or health problems for the purpose of mutual support or unidirectional support from an experienced peer to a novice peer (p.29).”
- “Peer support services can be delivered in groups or pairs, and in person, over the telephone, or through the internet (p.29)”
- “Peer support interventions may decrease isolation (direct effect), reduce the impact of stressors (buffering effect), increase sharing of health and self-management information (direct effect), and provide positive role modeling (mediating effect) (p. 30).”
- “Peer support programs may also empower patients to play a more active role in their own self-care. (p. 30)”
- The conclusion of the study found that peer support interventions do help to improve the symptoms of depression at all age groups.
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Reference:
Pfeiffer, P. N., Heisler, M., Piette, J. D., Rogers, M. M., & Valenstein, M. (2011). Efficacy of peer support interventions for
depression: A meta-analysis. General Hospital Psychiatry, 33(1), 29-36. doi:10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.10.002
Pfeiffer, P. N., Heisler, M., Piette, J. D., Rogers, M. M., & Valenstein, M. (2011). Efficacy of peer support interventions for
depression: A meta-analysis. General Hospital Psychiatry, 33(1), 29-36. doi:10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.10.002