Trial reportCommunity mental health journal2014
A pilot test of a peer navigator intervention for improving the health of individuals with serious mental illness.
Trial report in Community mental health journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
47 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Peer support for people with schizophrenia or other serious mental illness.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review of self-management health care models for individuals with serious mental illnesses.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2014Pooled it
- The Competencies and Implementation of Peer Support Interventions for People with Serious Mental Health Challenges: A Systematic Review.Harvard review of psychiatryPooled it
- Effect of a Virtual Patient Navigation Program on Behavioral Health Admissions in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2020Trial
- Using Electronic Health Records to Enhance a Peer Health Navigator Intervention: A Randomized Pilot Test for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness and Housing Instability.Community mental health journal · 2018Trial
- Treatment outcomes among a cohort of African American buprenorphine patients: Follow-up at 12 months.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2018Trial
- A community pharmacy intervention for opioid medication misuse: A pilot randomized clinical trial.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhATrial
- Implementing a peer navigation program for individuals with serious mental illness in the criminal legal system: insights and lessons learned.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Article
- Developing and evaluating a young adult peer mentor training program.Health care transitions · 2026Article
- Increasing the capacity of community managed organisations to provide chronic disease preventive care to people with a mental health condition: protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Co-Designing Lived Experience Guide Support for First Responder Mental Health: Defining the Role and Considerations for Implementation.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Lessons Learned in Transgender Peer Navigation: A Year of Reflective Journaling.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Development of a Suicide Prevention Intervention for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth and Young Adults: Rationale, Design, and Evidence of Feasibility and Acceptability.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- "Because I Am a Female": Stigma and Safety Perspectives from Racially/Ethnically Diverse Women with Serious Mental Illnesses.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Facing the paradox of professionalizing peer roles in MH services: how addressing self-disclosure with self-determination theory might help.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
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- Peer navigation intervention for individuals with serious mental illness reentering the community after jail incarceration: a qualitative case study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2024Article
- Characteristics of Existing Online Patient Navigation Interventions: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Care integration goes Beyond Co-Location: Creating a Medical Home.Administration and policy in mental health · 2024Article
- Interventions to Promote the Utilization of Physical Health Care for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) are at considerably higher risk for morbidity and mortality than those in the general population. The current pilot trial is a preliminary examination of a peer health navigation intervention for improving health and healthcare utilization called the Bridge. Twenty-four individuals with SMI were randomly assigned to either peer navigation or treatment as usual (TAU). Navigators encouraged development of self-management of healthcare through a series of psychoeducation and behavioral strategies. Outcomes included a range of health consequences, as well as health utilization indices. After 6 months, compared to the TAU group, participants receiving the intervention experienced fewer pain and health symptoms. Participants changed their orientation about seeking care to a primary care provider (44.4 % vs. 83.3 %, χ(2) = 3.50, p < .05) rather than the emergency room (55.6 % vs. 0 %, χ(2) = 8.75, p < .01). Therefore, the Bridge intervention demonstrated considerable promise through positively impacting health and healthcare utilization.
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