What do peer support workers do? A job description

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jacobson, Nora ^a   Trojanowski, Lucy ^b   Dewa, Carolyn S ^b,c  

^a Centre for Addiction and Mental Health ^*  (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Job description; Mixed methods; Participatory evaluation; Peer support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MANPOWER; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORK;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PEER GROUP; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84868137282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-205     Document Type: Article

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