Publications by authors named "Alina Grayzman"
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- Peer support workers leverage their personal experiences with mental health to assist others, and evaluating their adherence to core principles is crucial for effective implementation across different socio-economic contexts.
- The UPSIDES Fidelity Scale was created through expert collaboration and user feedback, resulting in two versions (one for service users and one for peer support workers) that assess various aspects of peer support.
- Evaluation of the scale across six sites in five countries showed good internal consistency and support for its validity, indicating it's a reliable tool for measuring the effectiveness of peer support initiatives.
With the movement towards recovery-oriented mental health (MH) services, individuals with MH lived-experience are increasingly employed as peer providers (peers). Peers are unique in that they bring knowledge from experience and eye-level connection to service users that enhance the quality of services and humanize MH systems' culture. In Israel, hundreds of peers are employed in various roles and settings across the MH system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Despite the established evidence base for mental health peer support work, widespread implementation remains a challenge. This study aimed to explore societal and organisational influences on the implementation of peer support work in low-income and high-income settings.
Design: Study sites conducted two focus groups in local languages at each site, using a topic guide based on a conceptual framework describing eight peer support worker (PSW) principles and five implementation issues.
The outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic challenged vulnerable populations such as individuals with significant mental illness. In this fresh focus, we describe the innovative development of the UPSIDES mental health peer support intervention, in face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. While the research program is still ongoing, in this paper we focus on the processes and lessons learned from dealing with the rapidly changing circumstances of the pandemic.
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- - The study aimed to create a flexible translation methodology for various types of study materials used in global health trials, addressing gaps in current guidelines on translation practices.
- - It involved three main stages: categorizing study materials, integrating existing translation frameworks, and implementing the methodology across several countries (Germany, India, Israel, Tanzania, and Uganda).
- - The results highlighted a ten-step translation process that proved effective, demonstrating good validity and reliability for the Social Inclusion Scale, suggesting this methodology is suitable for future cross-cultural adaptations in research.
Article Synopsis
- Peer support is an important but underutilized approach in mental health care, where individuals recovering from mental illness assist others in similar situations; this study aims to evaluate its impact across various levels, including service user outcomes, peer support worker experiences, and overall service benefits.
- The UPSIDES-RCT is a comprehensive, multi-country trial that assesses the effectiveness of peer support in mental health services over a year, focusing on key outcomes like social inclusion and empowerment for service users, while also examining cost-effectiveness.
- The study adopts a mixed-methods approach, exploring the experiences of different stakeholders involved in peer support and analyzing how the intervention can be sustainably implemented within various healthcare settings around the world.
Providing adequate care to individuals with intellectual disability (ID) requires the willingness of students in various health and social professions to care for this population upon completion of their studies. The aim of the current study was to examine the factors associated with the intentions of students from various fields to work with individuals with ID, using the framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior. A structured self-administered questionnaire was completed by 512 social work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, special education, and nursing students.
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