Peer support as a resilience building practice with men

Robinson, Mark; Raine, Gary; Robertson, Steve; Steen, Mary; Day, Rhiannon

doi:10.1108/jpmh-04-2015-0015

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“…Robinson et al performed a qualitativeinterventional study on 21 unemployed men by organizing peer support sessions and then conducting structured interviews. The results suggested a significant improvement in the perceived score of the resilience of the subjects (31). Although the interventions executed in the above studies structurally differ from the one used here, the results of all the three studies corroborate that the implementation of interventions with the help of a peer educator could bring about a significant difference in the score of resilience.…”

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confidence: 63%

Effect of Peer Education on the Resilience of Mothers of Children with Leukemia: A Clinical Trial

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Background: Resilience has become a basic construct in theories and studies of welfare and mental health. The mother is the one most involved emotionally in the child's cancer and its treatment and hence, she requires the most degree of resilience. Therefore, it is crucial to deploy effective methods to enhance the resilience of mothers. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of peer education on the resilience of mothers of children with leukemia. Methods: This clinical trial was performed on 74 mothers of children with leukemia who had been hospitalized in the hematology ward of Ali ibn Abi Talib Hospital in Zahedan in 2017. Convenience sampling was used to recruit the participants in accordance with the inclusion criteria. The subjects were randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups. Peer group training was then conducted for the experimental group for five days. The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) was completed for both groups before and immediately after the intervention, as well as two months later. The data were then analyzed using the chi-square test (Fisher's exact test), independent t-test, repeated measures ANOVA, and Bonferroni post hoc test at the significance level of P < 0.05. Results: The results showed that the mean total score of resilience and its subscales did not make a significant difference between the control and experimental groups immediately after the intervention (P > 0.05). Meanwhile, two months post-intervention, a significant difference was observed in this regard between the control and experimental groups, with the latter featuring a higher mean score (P < 0.001). Besides, the results suggested a significant increase in the total score of resilience and all its subscales over time in the experimental group (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Peer education could be implemented as an inexpensive easy method to improve the resilience of mothers of children with leukemia.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 63%

Effect of Peer Education on the Resilience of Mothers of Children with Leukemia: A Clinical Trial

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“…In contrast, an Indian study found that when young men experienced a high level of peer bullying, this leads to a low level of resilience (Narayanan & Betts, 2014). To summarise, a high level of peer support may lead to a high level of academic resilience (Robinson, Raine, Robertson, Steen, & Day, 2015).…”

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confidence: 92%

Social Support and Academic Achievement of Chinese Low- Income Children: A Mediation Effect of Academic Resilience

Fang

Chan

Kalogeropoulos

2020

Int. j. psychol. res.

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Using nation-wide survey data (N=2328) from China, this study investigates how social support from family, peers, and teachers influence low-income household children’s (from 13 to 15 years old) academic resilience, as well as how academic resilience mediates the relationship between social support and children’s academic achievement. Structural equation modelling was adopted to analyse the data. The results reveal that (1) low-income household children’s family, peer, and teacher support are associated with their academic resilience; (2) peer support and academic resilience of low-income household children significantly relate with their academic achievements; (3) academic resilience plays a full mediation role in teacher support and a partial mediation role in peer support on children’s academic achievement. The implications of this study on theory and practice, the limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

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“…Two principles underpinning this model are that (a) men don’t “go it alone” but instead connect with other men to engage mutual help and (b) male peer support models embody critical and complex approaches to gender ( Seebohm, Munn-Giddings, & Brewer, 2010 ). Work with returned soldiers ( Westwood, McLean, & Cave, 2010 ), men’s smoking cessation ( Bottorff, Johnson, Irwin, & Ratner, 2000 ), and men’s mental health ( Robinson, Raine, Robertson, Steen, & Day, 2015 ) indicates that men have the capacity within groups and through virtual platforms to effectively advance the health and illness practices of other men. Applying such approaches to men’s severe depression and suicidality might concurrently reduce some of the pressure on women amid mobilizing men’s peer-supported self-management strategies to reduce male suicide.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I should have …”:A Photovoice Study With Women Who Have Lost a Man to Suicide

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While the gendered nature of suicide has received increased research attention, the experiences of women who have lost a man to suicide are poorly understood. Drawing on qualitative photovoice interviews with 29 women who lost a man to suicide, we completed a narrative analysis, focused on describing the ways that women constructed and accounted for their experiences. We found that women’s narratives drew upon feminine ideals of caring for men’s health, which in turn gave rise to feelings of guilt over the man’s suicide. The women resisted holding men responsible for the suicide and tended to blame themselves, especially when they perceived their efforts to support the man as inadequate. Even when women acknowledged their guilt as illogical, they were seemingly unable to entirely escape regret and self-blame. In order to reformulate and avoid reifying feminine ideals synonymous with selflessly caring for others regardless of the costs to their own well-being, women’s postsuicide bereavement support programs should integrate a critical gender approach.

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Peer support as a resilience building practice with men

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Effect of Peer Education on the Resilience of Mothers of Children with Leukemia: A Clinical Trial

Effect of Peer Education on the Resilience of Mothers of Children with Leukemia: A Clinical Trial

Social Support and Academic Achievement of Chinese Low- Income Children: A Mediation Effect of Academic Resilience

“I should have …”:A Photovoice Study With Women Who Have Lost a Man to Suicide

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