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ArticleAdministration and policy in mental health2019

"We're All in this Together": Peer-specialist Contributions to a Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness.

Lauren Bochicchio, Ana Stefancic, Kristen Gurdak, Margaret Swarbrick, Leopoldo J Cabassa

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Article in Administration and policy in mental health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lauren BochicchioSchool of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
Ana StefancicDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Dr., Rm 6203, New York, NY, 10031, USA.
Kristen GurdakDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Dr., Rm 6203, New York, NY, 10031, USA.
Margaret SwarbrickCollaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Rutgers Behavioral Health Care, 11 Spring Street, Freehold, NJ, 07728, USA.
Leopoldo J CabassaGeorge Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA. ljcabassa@wustl.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1872-4141
Columbia University · USRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Peer-Led Healthy Lifestyle Program in Supportive HousingR01MH104574 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CABASSA, LEOPOLDO J · 2014 to 2018
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NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH104574
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This qualitative study explored peer specialists' contributions to a healthy lifestyle intervention for obese/overweight individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) living in supportive housing. Intervention participants, peer specialists, and supervisors were interviewed and a grounded model emerged from the data identifying essential interpersonal attributes of the peer specialist-participant relationship. Peer specialists' disclosure of their own experiences making health behaviors changes was critical for building participants' motivation and ability to try lifestyle changes. Findings can inform peer specialist training and practice standards and facilitate the expansion of peer-delivered interventions to improve the physical health of people with SMI.

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Healthy LifestylePeer GroupAdultComorbidityDietExerciseFemaleHealth PromotionHumansMaleMental DisordersMiddle AgedObesityOverweightQualitative ResearchSeverity of Illness IndexMental illnessPeer supportPhysical healthQualitative

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PMID30565004
PMCPMC6459695
OpenAlexW2904982509

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