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To identify peer workers' perceptions and experiences of barriers to implementation of peer worker roles in mental health services.
You have no idea what's going on; you're usually surrounded by a crowd of strangers; people in uniform or your mates are in your face telling you that you were dead," says Kevin, now a drugs educator, peer worker, and consultant based in Bedford, England.
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Whereas community health worker (CHW) programmes include disease prevention, treatment and health promotion activities, peer worker interventions tend to focus on providing emotional and moral support, advice and information, and targeted health education [ 3– 5].
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A further body of data, focused on the Peer Worker/ non-peer staff relationship, alludes in detail to processes of building new teams that incorporate both peer and non-peer staff roles.
Interviewees in our study spoke positively about a number of benefits of Peer Worker roles.
Once approached about becoming a Peer Worker ,service users weighed up the pros and cons of taking on the role.
It might be that, in the absence of consensus on what constitutes peer practice, a distinctive sense of 'being a Peer Worker' with which to positively identify was somehow lacking.
A recent literature review [ 9] details a relative wealth of qualitative research based on lived experience that attests to the benefits of Peer Worker initiatives in mental health services, for Peer Workers themselves and the service users they support.
New codes were created that foregrounded issues neglected in the preliminary framework, including staff retention of benevolent power as a constraint on the development of distinctive peer practice, and the experience of a conflicted Peer Worker identity.
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