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ArticleCurrent treatment options in psychiatry2019

The Future of Peer Support in Digital Psychiatry: Promise, Progress, and Opportunities.

Karen L Fortuna, Maria Venegas, Emre Umucu, George Mois, Robert Walker, Jessica M Brooks

Registry-linked trialOpen access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Current treatment options in psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05199675 (Implementing Digital Peer Support Training for Adolescent Mental Health), which is not on this map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05199675 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Implementing Digital Peer Support Training for Adolescent Mental Health: Study Protocol For A Type III Hybrid Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorThe N.1 Institute for Health (N.1)Ran2022 to 2023Enrolled100ConditionsAdolescent Development, Peer Group, Mental Health Wellness 1ArmsDigital Peer Support Training Program
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. What Youth Write About and Seek in an Anonymized Online Peer Support Forum: Insights from India.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Karen L FortunaThe Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 2 Pillsbury Street, Suite 401, Concord, NH, 03301, USA.
Maria VenegasCDC Health Promotion Research Center at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, 03766, USA.
Emre UmucuDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Ave, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA.
George MoisSchool of Social Work, University of Georgia, 279 Williams Street, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Robert WalkerMassachusetts Department of Mental Health, 25 Staniford St, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Jessica M BrooksGeriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, 130 West Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY, 10468, USA.
Dartmouth College · USDartmouth Psychiatric Research Center · USJames J. Peters VA Medical Center · USMassachusetts Department of Mental Health · USThe University of Texas at El Paso · USUniversity of Georgia · US

Funding

Peer-Delivered and Technology-Assisted Integrated Illness Management and RecoveryK01MH117496 · NIMH · DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC · PI FORTUNA, KAREN L. · 2019 to 2023
$615k
NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH117496
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis selective review highlights promising findings and future opportunities relevant to digital peer support services. This review considered literature published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals within the past 36 months. RECENT

findingsDigital peer support spans multiple technology modalities: peer-delivered and smartphone-supported interventions, peer-supported asynchronous technology, artificial peer support, informal peer-to-peer support via social media, video games, and virtual worlds. Digital peer support is an emerging area of research that shows promise in improving mental health symptoms, medical and psychiatric self-management skill development, social functioning, hope, and empowerment. SUMMARY: As the science of peer support in digital psychiatry advances, peer support specialists will likely have an increasingly important role in the mental health workforce-from providing evidence-based, fidelity-adherent interventions to expanding their reach to vulnerable populations and communities.

Indexed as

Digital health technologyMental health carePatient-facilitated networksPeer support

Identifiers

PMID33796435
PMCPMC8011292
OpenAlexW2951900649

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Registered trials

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