Peer Mentoring for Male Parolees: A CBPR Pilot Study

Marlow, Elizabeth; Grajeda, William; Lee, Yema; Young, Earthy; Williams, Malcolm; Hill, Karen

doi:10.1353/cpr.2015.0013

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“… 75 – 78 The authors’ search also revealed a recently published pilot study that evaluated a peer support program for formerly incarcerated adults who transitioned back into the community that included investigations of craving among other varriables. 79 This population experiences high rates of substance use. One of the main objectives of this study was to assess program feasibility using a community-based participatory research approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… 69 Associated positive changes have also been demonstrated such as improvements in negative affect, social support perceptions, reductions in habitual craving, and feelings of guilt or shame. 69 , 79 All of these areas play important roles in one’s ability to achieve and sustain abstinence from substances. There were conflicting results from studies on whether or not quality-of-life improvements were associated with peer support groups being included in services.…”

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Benefits of peer support groups in the treatment of addiction

Tracy¹,

Wallace²

2016

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ObjectivePeer support can be defined as the process of giving and receiving nonprofessional, nonclinical assistance from individuals with similar conditions or circumstances to achieve long-term recovery from psychiatric, alcohol, and/or other drug-related problems. Recently, there has been a dramatic rise in the adoption of alternative forms of peer support services to assist recovery from substance use disorders; however, often peer support has not been separated out as a formalized intervention component and rigorously empirically tested, making it difficult to determine its effects. This article reports the results of a literature review that was undertaken to assess the effects of peer support groups, one aspect of peer support services, in the treatment of addiction.MethodsThe authors of this article searched electronic databases of relevant peer-reviewed research literature including PubMed and MedLINE.ResultsTen studies met our minimum inclusion criteria, including randomized controlled trials or pre-/post-data studies, adult participants, inclusion of group format, substance use-related, and US-conducted studies published in 1999 or later. Studies demonstrated associated benefits in the following areas: 1) substance use, 2) treatment engagement, 3) human immunodeficiency virus/hepatitis C virus risk behaviors, and 4) secondary substance-related behaviors such as craving and self-efficacy. Limitations were noted on the relative lack of rigorously tested empirical studies within the literature and inability to disentangle the effects of the group treatment that is often included as a component of other services.ConclusionPeer support groups included in addiction treatment shows much promise; however, the limited data relevant to this topic diminish the ability to draw definitive conclusions. More rigorous research is needed in this area to further expand on this important line of research.

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Benefits of peer support groups in the treatment of addiction

Tracy¹,

Wallace²

2016

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101

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“…The authors used participant observation to contextual the experiences of health workers, while semi-structured interviews aimed to understand how the intervention empowered community health workers. An additional number of studies demonstrate pre-post quasi-experimental design and participatory approaches, to include Andersen et al (2015), Garney et al (2015), and Marlow et al (2015).…”

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Practicing Community Psychology Through Mixed Methods Participatory Research Designs

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Community psychologists address social inequalities and problems by employing ecological principles, multiple methodologies and participatory approaches to empower individuals, organizations, and communities to organize action and systems change. This paper aims to contribute to mixed methods literature by presenting three models of mixed methods participatory research across a variety of geographic and sociocultural contexts.The models outline participatory processes and points of qualitative and quantitative data integration. Challenges related to the interplay between participatory approaches and mixed methods studies as well as implications on social science research are discussed.

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“…Especially for individuals with mental health and substance use disorders, peer programs have demonstrated effectiveness in improving their linkage and engagement with services (Bagnall et al 2015; Nyamathi et al 2015; Blodgett et al 2013). Although there is some evidence that peer programs may improve a variety of outcomes for the reentry population (Rowe et al 2007; Goldstein et al 2009; Marlow et al 2015), there are few published interventions focusing on veterans. To address this evidence gap, this paper describes how process mapping contributed to the design of a locally relevant peer-support intervention to assist veterans as they return to community settings after incarceration.…”

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A novel application of process mapping in a criminal justice setting to examine implementation of peer support for veterans leaving incarceration

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Background Between 12,000 and 16,000 veterans leave incarceration every year, yet resources are limited for reentry support that helps veterans remain connected to VA and community health care and services after leaving incarceration. Homelessness and criminal justice recidivism may result when such follow-up and support are lacking. In order to determine where gaps exist in current reentry support efforts, we developed a novel methodological adaptation of process mapping (a visualization technique being increasingly used in health care to identify gaps in services and linkages) in the context of a larger implementation study of a peer-support intervention to link veterans to health-related services after incarceration ( https://clinicaltrials.gov/ , NCT02964897, registered November 4, 2016) to support their reentry into the community. Methods We employed process mapping to analyze qualitative interviews with staff from organizations providing reentry support. Interview data were used to generate process maps specifying the sequence of events and the multiple parties that connect veterans to post-incarceration services. Process maps were then analyzed for uncertainties, gaps, and bottlenecks. Results We found that reentry programs lack systematic means of identifying soon-to-be released veterans who may become their clients; veterans in prisons/jails, and recently released, lack information about reentry supports and how to access them; and veterans’ whereabouts between their release and their health care appointments are often unknown to reentry and health care teams. These system-level shortcomings informed our intervention development and implementation planning of peer-support services for veterans’ reentry. Conclusions Systematic information sharing that is inherent to process mapping makes more transparent the research needed, helping to engage participants and operational partners who are critical for successful implementation of interventions to improve reentry support for veterans leaving incarceration. Even beyond our immediate study, process mapping based on qualitative interview data enables visualization of data that is useful for 1) verifying the research team’s interpretation of interviewee’s accounts, 2) specifying the events that occur within processes that the implementation is targeting (identifying knowledge gaps and inefficiencies), and 3) articulating and tracking the pre- to post-implementation changes clearly to support dissemination of evidence-based health care practices for justice-involved populations. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s40352-019-0085-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Peer Mentoring for Male Parolees: A CBPR Pilot Study

Abstract: This study demonstrated the feasibility and import of involving formerly incarcerated adults in the design, implementation, and testing of interventions intended to support their reintegration efforts.

Cited by 27 publications

References 40 publications

Benefits of peer support groups in the treatment of addiction

Benefits of peer support groups in the treatment of addiction

Practicing Community Psychology Through Mixed Methods Participatory Research Designs

A novel application of process mapping in a criminal justice setting to examine implementation of peer support for veterans leaving incarceration

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