RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Contributions of Peer Support to Health, Health Care, and Prevention: Papers from Peers for Progress
JF The Annals of Family Medicine
JO Ann Fam Med
FD American Academy of Family Physicians
SP S2
OP S8
DO 10.1370/afm.1852
VO 13
IS Suppl 1
A1 Edwin B. Fisher
A1 Guadalupe X. Ayala
A1 Leticia Ibarra
A1 Andrea L. Cherrington
A1 John P. Elder
A1 Tricia S. Tang
A1 Michele Heisler
A1 Monika M. Safford
A1 David Simmons
YR 2015
UL http://www.annfammed.org/content/13/Suppl_1/S2.abstract
AB SUBSTANTIAL evidence documents the benefits of peer support provided by community health workers, lay health advisors, promotores de salud, and others. The papers in this supplement, all supported by the Peers for Progress program of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, contribute to the growing body of literature addressing the efficacy, effectiveness, feasibility, reach, sustainability, and adoption of peer support for diabetes self-management. They and additional papers supported by Peers for Progress contribute to understanding how peer support can be implemented in real world settings. Topics include examination of the peers who provide peer support, reaching the hardly reached, success factors in peer support interventions, proactive approaches, attention to emotions, peer support in behavioral health, dissemination models and their application in China, peer support in the patient-centered medical home, research challenges, and policy implications.