Trial reportHealth education research2013
Evaluation of a peer-led hypertension intervention for veterans: impact on peer leaders.
Trial report in Health education research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of peer support interventions on cardiovascular disease risk factors in adults with diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Experiences of integrating community volunteers as extensions of the primary care team to help support older adults at home: a qualitative study.BMC family practice · 2020Trial
- Using peer advocates to improve access to services among hard-to-reach populations with hepatitis C: a qualitative study of client and provider relationships.Harm reduction journal · 2017Trial
- A randomized trial of peer-delivered self-management support for hypertension.American journal of hypertension · 2014Trial
- Peer Support Activities for Veterans, Serving Members, and Their Families: Results of a Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- What is the volume, diversity and nature of recent, robust evidence for the use of peer support in health and social care? An evidence and gap map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2022Review
- The Co-Evolution of Network Structure and PrEP Adoption among a Large Cohort of PrEP Peer Leaders: Implications for Intervention Evaluation and Community Capacity-Building.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- From peer-based to peer-led: redefining the role of peers across the hepatitis C care pathway: HepCare Europe.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2019Observational
- Behavioral interventions to improve hypertension control in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2014Review
- The Impact of Peer Support Program on Adherence to the Treatment Regimen in Patients with Hypertension: A Randomized Clinical Trial Study.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Volunteer peer leaders (PLs) benefit from their involvement in health interventions but we know little about how they compare with other non-PL volunteers or with the intervention recipients themselves. We randomized 58 veterans' service organizations' posts (e.g. VFW) to peer- versus professionally led self-management support interventions. Our primary research questions were whether hypertensive PLs changed over the course of the project, whether they changed more than hypertensive volunteers who were not randomized to such a role [i.e. post representatives (PRs)] and whether they changed more than the intervention recipients with respect to health knowledge, health beliefs and health outcomes from baseline to 12 months. After the intervention, PLs provided open-ended feedback and participated in focus groups designed to explore intervention impact. Hypertensive PLs improved their systolic blood pressure and hypertension knowledge and increased their fruit/vegetable intake and pedometer use. We found no differences between PLs and PRs. PLs improved knowledge and increased fruit/vegetable intake more than intervention recipients did; they provided specific examples of personal health behavior change and knowledge acquisition. Individuals who volunteer to be peer health leaders are likely to receive important benefits even if they do not actually take on such a role.
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