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Peer Support for the Hardly Reached: A Systematic Review.

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  • 1All of the authors are with the Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Summary

Peer support effectively reaches underserved populations across various health issues. Building trust and respect enhances participant retention, especially for disadvantaged groups.

Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Disparities Research
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Health initiatives often fail to reach intended populations, exacerbating disparities.
  • Hardly reached groups face barriers across individual, demographic, and cultural-environmental domains.
  • Peer support is recognized as a strategy to engage these underserved populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically review the reach and effectiveness of peer support interventions for hardly reached individuals.
  • To identify and analyze strategies used in peer support programs for engaging and retaining these populations.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted systematic searches in PubMed for studies published between 2000 and 2015.
  • Included studies evaluating peer support for complex health behaviors in hardly reached populations.

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  • Abstracted data on health topics, hardly reached group categorizations, reach, outcomes, and strategies; used t-tests to analyze strategy effectiveness.

    • Main Results:

    • Forty-seven studies met criteria, covering individual, demographic, and cultural-environmental barriers.
    • Interventions focused on maternal/child health, diabetes, and chronic diseases.
    • Ninety-four percent of studies reported significant positive changes favoring peer support; reach ranged from 24% to 79%.

    Conclusions:

    • Peer support is a versatile and effective strategy for engaging hardly reached populations across diverse health contexts.
    • Programs emphasizing trust and respect demonstrated significantly higher participant retention.
    • Peer support benefits appear greater for individuals facing heightened disadvantage.