Silvia, Maria et. al. have just published the results of their research on mental health workers’ views on peer support in a new publication. Please find the publication below or in our output area: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04206-5
UPSIDES peer support workers from the UPSIDES study site in Ulm/Günzburg presented their work at the 14th International ENMESH conference in Tel Aviv! Common topics in peer support were gathered and shared in this presentation. The aim was to foster knowledge exchange about peer support and its implementation across different…
The latest issue of our regular newsletter has just been published. The English version can be found in the output area, the localised variants in the multilingual area. Thank you to Palak and all others who contributed!
A new publication by Ashleigh et al. has just been released. It investigates methodologies that were developed to offer sufficiently flexible translation approaches for different study materials. Without this work, an international implementation of UPSIDES would not have been possible. As usual, you can find the article in our output…
Rebecca et al. just published an important article that describes the methods, evaluations and results from the UPSIDES pilot phase. The goal of this phase was to prepare individuals for the PSW role and to implementation the peer support intervention. As usual, you can find the article in our output…
With the end of the recruitment phase, the RCT of the upsides project was able to reach an important milestone! Over 600 participants were recruited across all sites in Germany, India, Israel, Uganda and Tanzania. Especially due to the pandemic situation, this is a great achievement by all recruitment centers…
Maria’s latest publication reports on the experiences of Peer-Support-Workers and Trainers in Germany. The publication is written in German and can be found in our output-area. Congratulations Maria!
There are two new publications on the UPSIDES project! You can find and download Ashleigh’s “Initial Training for Mental Health Peer Support Workers: Systematized Review and International Delphi Consultation” and Maria’s “UPSIDES peer support – overcoming crises together” in the Output area. Thank you and congratulations to Ashleigh and Maria!
DGPPN 2020 talks from UPSIDES members Several UPSIDES researchers took part in the DGPPN 2020 congress. Please find their excellent talks below or in the output-area.
As written in a previous post, Rebecca Nixdorf won the 2020 GACD Annual Scientific Meeting runner-up poster award with her poster on UPSIDES. There are now interviews with her and Dr. Ruth Verhey, the main winner. Please follow the links below to access the article and posts on Twitter and…