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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 451-460Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/inm.12805
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mental health; peer support work; psychiatry; recovery; training
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The EX-IN training program has a positive impact on participants' recovery, stigma resistance, and introspection, especially for those with more recent inpatient stays. The training can be recommended for preparation for peer support work and as an intervention to improve personal recovery processes.
The 'Experienced Involvement' (EX-IN) training programme prepares and certifies individuals who have experienced mental health problems to work as peer support workers and to support others challenged by similar conditions. We aimed to assess the impact of the EX-IN training on hope, self-efficacy, introspection, stigma resistance, personal recovery, health-related quality of life and employment in participants. Data was collected using standardized assessment instruments before the training started (t1) and upon course completion (t2). Data from 103 participants who participated in both measurement times were included into data analysis. Participants significantly improved their recovery, stigma resistance and introspection during the EX-IN training. In addition, a significant higher proportion of participants were employed at t2. Participants whose last inpatient stay was 0-1 year before the start of the EX-IN training showed significantly lower levels of stigma resistance, and self-efficacy at t1 than participants with two or more years since the last inpatient stay. There were no significant changes in mean values over time, or in the mean values at t2 between the two groups. EX-IN training has a positive influence on the handling of stigma, on one's recovery path and introspection. This indicates that EX-IN training has a therapeutic effect on the participants. EX-IN training seems to meet the challenges of peer support work. Therefore, the training can be recommended as preparation for working as a peer support worker as well as an intervention to improve one's recovery process.
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