ArticlePsychiatric rehabilitation journal2016
The use of peer mentors to enhance a smoking cessation intervention for persons with serious mental illnesses.
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- Effectiveness of a one-year smoking cessation intervention for people with severe mental illness: results of the KISMET cluster-randomized controlled trial.Psychological medicine · 2026Trial
- Helping Smokers with Severe Mental Illness Who Do Not Want to Quit.Substance use & misuse · 2018Trial
- Peer support for physical activity adoption among breast cancer survivors: Do the helped resemble the helpers?European journal of cancer care · 2018Trial
- The impact of drinking on smoking cessation outcomes among Hong Kong Chinese youth smokers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Social networks of people with serious mental illness who smoke: potential role in a smoking cessation intervention.Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England) · 2024Article
- Peer-Facilitated Tobacco Cessation in a Prison Setting: A Proof of Concept Study.Tobacco use insights · 2023Article
- Adapting Peer Researcher Facilitated Strategies to Recruit People Receiving Mental Health Services to a Tobacco Treatment Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Peer mentoring for smoking cessation in public housing: A mixed-methods study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Psychosocial Factors Affecting Smoking Cessation Among People Living With Schizophrenia: A Lived Experience Lens.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Development and Evaluation of Innovative Peer-Led Physical Activity Programs for Mental Health Service Users.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2017Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to Tobacco Cessation in a Nationwide Sample of Addiction Treatment Programs.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2016Article
- The Experience of Peer Mentors in an Intervention to Promote Smoking Cessation in Persons with Psychiatric Illness.Community mental health journal · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe evaluated a well-specified peer mentor program that enhanced a professionally led smoking cessation group for persons with serious mental illnesses.
methodParticipants were 8 peer mentors, persons with serious mental illnesses who had successfully quit smoking, and 30 program participants, persons with serious mental illnesses enrolled in a 6-month intervention. Peer mentors were trained and then helped to deliver a smoking cessation group and met with program participants individually. We assessed the mentors' skills after training, their fidelity to the model, and the program's feasibility and acceptability. We also measured the smoking outcomes of the program participants including change in exhaled carbon monoxide, a measure of recent smoking, and aspects of the peer mentor-program participant relationship.
resultsPeer mentors attained a mean score of 13.6/14 on role play assessments after training and delivered the intervention with fidelity as assessed by adherence and competence ratings (mean scores of 97% and 93%, respectively). The feasibility and acceptability of the intervention was demonstrated in that 28/30 participants met with their peer mentors regularly and only 1 participant and no peer mentor discontinued in the study. Both parties rated the interpersonal alliance highly, mean of 5.9/7. The program participants had a decline in carbon monoxide levels and number of cigarettes smoked per day (repeated measures ANOVA F = 6.04, p = .008; F = 15.87, p < .001, respectively). A total of 22/30 (73%) made a quit attempt but only 3 (10%) achieved sustained abstinence. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Our study adds to the growing literature about peer-delivered interventions.
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