ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Peer Education and Peer Counselling for Health and Well-Being: A Review of Reviews.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Reviews in Educational Psychology (Frontiers in Psychology 2010-2024): typology, topics, regional comparative and methodology toward digital and AI approaches.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- School-based peer education interventions to improve health: a global systematic review of effectiveness.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Peer Coaching to Support Weight Management in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Comparison of peer and instructor training techniques on waste separation behavior at source amongst female students in Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effects of Behavioral Intervention Components for African American/Black and Latino Persons Living with HIV with Non-suppressed Viral Load Levels: Results of an Optimization Trial.AIDS and behavior · 2023Trial
- Navigating Stigma and Support: Realist Evaluation of Support for Migrant Informal Caregivers of Loved Ones with Mental Illness.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Community-based peer education as a tool for the prevention of breast cancer: a narrative review.Ecancermedicalscience · 2026Review
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- Child vaccine communication practice in promoting child immunization in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2025Article
- The impact of school transitions on adolescent alcohol and tobacco use: Variations by network position and friendship stability.Deviant behavior · 2025Article
- The effect of peer-led education on the quality of life of mothers of premature infants in neonatal intensive care units: a quasi-experimental study.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Supporting the transition to higher education: examination of state- and trait-level effects of a multicomponent positive psychological intervention for university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Determinants of early mental health help-seeking among women in Bangladesh: A nationally representative bootstrapped regression analysis.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Efficacy of internet-based peer education for postpartum depression: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A scoping review on peer-led interventions to improve youth mental health in low- and middle-income countries.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Peer learning and academic burnout mitigation in medical students: a mediation analysis.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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- Understanding Knowledge Mobilisation between Community Champions and Parents: Evidence from a Community-Based Programme to Support Parents with Young Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Addressing medical student burnout through informal peer-assisted learning: a correlational analysis.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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Abstract
Peer education and peer counselling for health and wellbeing have been recognized as complementary approaches to professional intervention for over 50 years, but it is relatively recently that research into effects has become adequate. Potentially, they have advantages in reaching where professionals cannot, but it has not been clear if that potential is fulfilled, although the measurement of effects is difficult. The present paper examines 58 narrative and systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the topic. In peer education, there were many reviews of sexual health and of HIV/AIDS interventions, followed by reviews of various medical conditions and in the context of prisons. More general reviews covered a wider field. In peer counselling, there were several reviews of breast-feeding and mental health. Many early reviews complained of the lack of evaluation; then, later reviews found knowledge gains but not behavior gains; then, still later reviews found both knowledge and behavior gains. Thus, peer education and counselling appear effective but only if organizational factors are well managed and the cultural context of the country respected. The implications for future practice, policy and research were outlined.
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