Fortuna Karen L, Venegas Maria, Umucu Emre, Mois George, Walker Robert, Brooks Jessica M
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 2 Pillsbury Street, Suite 401, Concord, NH, 03301, USA.
CDC Health Promotion Research Center at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, 03766, USA.
Curr Treat Options Psychiatry. 2019 Sep;6(3):221-231. doi: 10.1007/s40501-019-00179-7. Epub 2019 Jun 20.
This 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.
Digital 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.
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.
本选择性综述重点介绍了与数字同伴支持服务相关的有前景的研究结果和未来机遇。本综述纳入了过去36个月内在同行评审学术期刊上发表的文献。
数字同伴支持涵盖多种技术模式:同伴提供和智能手机支持的干预措施、同伴支持的异步技术、人工同伴支持、通过社交媒体、视频游戏和虚拟世界进行的非正式同伴支持。数字同伴支持是一个新兴的研究领域,在改善心理健康症状、医学和精神科自我管理技能发展、社会功能、希望和赋权方面显示出前景。
随着数字精神病学中同伴支持科学的发展,同伴支持专家在心理健康工作队伍中可能会发挥越来越重要的作用——从提供基于证据、忠实执行的干预措施到将其服务范围扩大到弱势群体和社区。