Staff attitudes towards consumer participation and peer worker roles in a community mental health service

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Melissa Aguey-Zinsou, Joanne Sommer and Elisa Yule. (2018). Staff attitudes towards consumer participation and peer worker roles in a community mental health service. Journal of Recovery in Mental Health. 2(1), pp. 82-90.

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Authors	Melissa Aguey-Zinsou, Joanne Sommer and Elisa Yule
Abstract	Objective: To investigate the attitudes of community mental health staff towards consumer participation and peer workers in mental health services. Methods: In this cross-sectional survey design study, community mental health staff completed the Mental Health Participation Questionnaire (MHPQ) which measures the attitudes of mental health professionals towards consumer participation at individual and systemic levels. Results: 82 staff completed the questionnaire. Overall, staff expressed positive attitudes towards consumer involvement in mental health service care planning and treatment, with neutral attitudes towards the more systemic aspects of consumer involvement in management and consumers as educators. The results also demonstrated that staff do value lived experience expertise and change that consumer involvement and peer workers can bring to services to enable them to support recovery. Positive relationship qualities between mental health staff and peer workers were found to be important. Conclusion: This study adds to existing research that has found community mental health staff generally have a positive attitude towards consumer participation in mental health services.
Keywords	peer workers; consumer participation; community mental health
Year	2018
Journal	Journal of Recovery in Mental Health
Journal citation	2 (1), pp. 82-90
Publisher	Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
ISSN	2371-2376
Web address (URL)	https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/rmh/article/view/31925
Open access	Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
Page range	82-90
Publisher's version	OA_Aguey-Zinsou_2018_Staff_Attitudes_Towards_Consumer_Participation_and.pdf License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open
Output status	Published
Online	29 Nov 2018
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Deposited	03 May 2021

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