Pereira L, Radovic T, Haykal K A
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Faculty of Science, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
Can Med Educ J. 2021 Jun 30;12(3):113-125. doi: 10.36834/cmej.71129. eCollection 2021 Jun.
Peer-provided services exist in many different domains and professions. However, there is a knowledge gap in the existing programs' descriptions and grouping that hinders creating new high-quality peer support programs. The objectives of this article are two-fold in describing existing peer support programs published in the literature in the medical field and evaluating their descriptive quality. Six electronic databases, grey literature, and reference lists were systematically searched. Studies reporting the existence of a support program delivered by peers and its description or methodology were included. Studies targeting patients and children were excluded. 11 articles were included in the qualitative synthesis and explored in detail. A total of 2155 peers participated in support programs in the fields of medicine, nursing, or both. Programs in other professional fields were not found. Programs were described in five different countries. Three methods of peer support delivery were found: in person, online, and mixed varying in their goals, duration, peer training supervision and participant demographics and number. Program descriptions were rated as good, fair, or poor using a verified rating scale. There are numerous well-described programs varying in their methodology and type of delivery. Thus, the emergence of new programs can be based on such models that have been well-described in the literature.
同伴提供的服务存在于许多不同的领域和职业中。然而，现有项目的描述和分类存在知识空白，这阻碍了新的高质量同伴支持项目的创建。本文的目的有两个，一是描述医学领域文献中发表的现有同伴支持项目，二是评估其描述质量。系统检索了六个电子数据库、灰色文献和参考文献列表。纳入了报告同伴提供的支持项目的存在及其描述或方法的研究。排除针对患者和儿童的研究。11篇文章被纳入定性综合并进行详细探讨。共有2155名同伴参与了医学、护理或两者领域的支持项目。未发现其他专业领域的项目。项目在五个不同国家进行了描述。发现了三种同伴支持提供方式：面对面、在线和混合方式，它们在目标、持续时间、同伴培训监督以及参与者的人口统计学特征和数量方面各不相同。使用经过验证的评分量表将项目描述评为好、一般或差。有许多描述详细的项目，其方法和提供方式各不相同。因此，新的项目可以基于文献中描述详细的此类模式来产生。
