ArticleTranslational behavioral medicine2018
The science of peer support as applied to behavioral medicine and the care of individuals surviving with cancer: a commentary on "Peer mentors delivering a physical activity intervention for cancer survivors: effects among mentors by Pinto et al."
Article in Translational behavioral medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- A remotely delivered, peer-led intervention to improve physical activity and quality of life in younger breast cancer survivors.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Trial
- Peer Mentors for People with Advanced Cancer: Lessons Learnt from Recruiting and Training Peer Mentors for a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2021Trial
- A mixed methods evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of a peer-led physical activity behaviour change intervention for inactive people living with and beyond cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Perinatal depression and sun safety behaviors: Results of a pilot intervention trial.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Connecting women who are diagnosed and treated for breast cancer to engage in physical activity: a two-arm randomized controlled trial.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Peer support programming among women at-risk for or surviving breast cancer: Facilitators and barriers to community-based patient navigation.Translational behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Matched and moving: exploring daily social support among women partnered for exercise after a breast cancer diagnosis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Facilitators of peer coaching/support engagement and dissemination among women at risk for and surviving with breast cancer.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
There is a critical gap between the resources available to promote health and wellness after cancer and services that address these public health goals. Researchers, policy makers, healthcare providers, and community stakeholders increasingly recognize the benefits of filling this gap with trained peer mentors who can provide health-promotion services to fellow cancer survivors. This commentary addresses a mixed-method study by Pinto and colleagues that investigated the responses and experiences of trained peer mentors who delivered their telephone-based physical activity intervention for breast cancer survivors. Their findings suggested that peer mentors did not experience harms from their role while revealing that peer mentors reported benefits related to helping themselves and helping others. Drawing on our expertise in peer support provision and peer mentoring, we address the significant opportunity offered by training peer mentors to deliver behavioral interventions, draw connections to relevant literatures and theoretical perspectives on potential benefits for peer mentors, and highlight the need for rigorous, theory-based research to determine the circumstances under which peer mentoring benefits mentors and the mechanisms underlying these benefits.
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