Peer Interventions in Severe Mental Illnesses: A Systematic Review and its Relation to Occupational Therapy

Prieto, Ivan Cano; Algado, Salvador Simó; Vigué, Gemma Prat

doi:10.1080/0164212x.2022.2085645

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“…Qualitative studies with participants with mental illness have found that reengaging in occupations during recovery often is a hard and demanding process [ 38 , 40 , 41 ]. It has been suggested that advancing occupational therapy interventions by offering individual support and incorporating collaborations between occupational therapists and peer-workers, may hold unrealized potentials for supporting occupational engagement and recovery [ 38 , 40 , 42 ]. Peer-workers are people with personal experiences with mental health problems, employed in mental health services to explicitly use their experiences to support others in their recovery [ 43 ].…”

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“Moving on to an Open World”: A Study of Participants’ Experience in Meaningful Activities and Recovery (MA&R)

Tepavicharov

Christensen

Møller

et al. 2022

Occupational Therapy International

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Background. Meaningful activities and Recovery (MA&R) is a peer coled occupational therapy intervention, to support occupational engagement among persons with psychiatric disabilities. Aim. To investigate participants’ perspectives on how MA&R influenced occupational engagement and recovery processes. Material and Methods. A qualitative study with a phenomenological-hermeneutic design. Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with three women and ten men who had participated in MA&R. Participants were recruited from community mental health centres and municipality mental health services in two Danish municipalities. Analysis strategy was based on Malterud’s Systematic Text Condensation. Results. MA&R was perceived as a practical approach to recovery, by providing an opportunity for reorientation, meaning, making in mundane activities, and a new outlook on everyday life. Participating in MA&R challenged a black and white approach to activities, put emphasis on “the little things”, and enhanced curiosity, presence, and joy in occupational engagement. Conclusion. MA&R supported participants in developing a new “lens” on meaningful activities. The lens enhanced occupational engagement and made it possible to live according to personal preference. Results can inform further development and delivery of recovery-oriented occupational therapy interventions and add to the understandings of how occupational engagement and recovery are intertwined and manifested through everyday experiences. Thus, occupational engagement is an important target for recovery-oriented interventions. Occupational therapists and peer-workers coleading such interventions is feasible and makes good sense to the participants.

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“Moving on to an Open World”: A Study of Participants’ Experience in Meaningful Activities and Recovery (MA&R)

Tepavicharov

Christensen

Møller

et al. 2022

Occupational Therapy International

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Meaningful Activities and Recovery (MA&R): a co-led peer occupational therapy intervention for people with psychiatric disabilities. Results from a randomized controlled trial

Bjørkedal¹,

Bejerholm

Hjorthøj

et al. 2023

BMC Psychiatry

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Background Activity and participation are critical to health and wellbeing. Limited evidence exists on how to support people with mental illness in participating in everyday activities. Aim To investigate the effectiveness of Meaningful Activities and Recovery (MA&R), a co-led peer occupational therapy intervention focusing on activity engagement, functioning, quality of life, and personal recovery. Methods In a statistician blinded, multicenter RCT including 139 participants from seven community and municipal mental health services in Denmark, participants were randomly assigned to 1) MA&R and standard mental health care or 2) standard mental health care. The MA&R intervention lasted 8 months and consisted of 11 group sessions, 11 individual sessions, and support to engage in activities. The primary outcome, activity engagement, was measured using Profile of Occupational Engagement in People with Severe Mental Illness (POES-S). Outcomes were measured at baseline and post-intervention follow-up. Results Meaningful Activities and Recovery was delivered with high fidelity and 83% completed the intervention. It did not demonstrate superiority to standard mental health care, as intention-to treat analysis revealed no significant differences between the groups in activity engagement or any of the secondary outcomes. Conclusion We did not find positive effects of MA&R, possibly because of COVID-19 and related restrictions. Fidelity assessments and adherence rates suggest that MA&R is feasible and acceptable. However, future studies should focus on refining the intervention before investigating its effectiveness. Trial registration The trial was registered 24/05/2019 at ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03963245.

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MOSAIC, an example of comprehensive and integrated social and health care: care and practices oriented towards personal recovery

Cano-Prieto,

Prat-Vigué,

Vilanova-Masana

et al. 2023

Front. Health Serv.

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BackgroundThe Mosaic project is a socio-health integration model that promotes the personal recovery of people with severe mental illness in a territory of Central Catalonia: the Bages region. The recovery approach in mental health care promotes meaningful activities and social inclusion for people with mental health disorders. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the level of meaningful activities and other factors associated with the mental health recovery model.MethodsA cross-sectional design was used. Participants (n = 59) signed an informed consent and completed the following standardized instruments: Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey; The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale; Hert Hope Scale; and Recovery Assessment Scale.ResultsA Pearson correlation test was performed between the level of meaningful activities and life satisfaction, resilience, hope, and recovery. These data indicate that the amount of meaningful activities are strongly associated with variables related to the personal recovery process from mental health problems.ConclusionsThe integration process of MOSAIC confirms the need to accompany the recovery processes through significant occupations.

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Peer Interventions in Severe Mental Illnesses: A Systematic Review and its Relation to Occupational Therapy

Cited by 3 publications

References 79 publications

“Moving on to an Open World”: A Study of Participants’ Experience in Meaningful Activities and Recovery (MA&R)

“Moving on to an Open World”: A Study of Participants’ Experience in Meaningful Activities and Recovery (MA&R)

Meaningful Activities and Recovery (MA&R): a co-led peer occupational therapy intervention for people with psychiatric disabilities. Results from a randomized controlled trial

MOSAIC, an example of comprehensive and integrated social and health care: care and practices oriented towards personal recovery

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