Output

I. General Public

UPSIDES Newsletters

Reports and experiences

Nixdorf R. (2020). Report on the Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Vienna: Download

Nixdorf R. (2019). Report on the Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Tanzania: Download

Policy briefs

in development…

Publications

Journal articles

A systematic review of influences on implementation of peer support work for adults with mental health problems. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 55(3), 285-293 (2020). Ibrahim, N., Thompson, D., Nixdorf, R., Kalha, J., Mpango, R., Moran, G., Mueller-Stierlin, A., Ryan, G., Mahlke, C., Shamba, D., Puschner, B., Repper, J., Slade, M.

Peer support for people with severe mental illness versus usual care in high-, middle-and low-income countries study protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT) Trials 21, 371 (2020). Moran G., Kalha J., Mueller-Stierlin A., Kilian R., Krumm S., Slade M., Charles A., Mahlke C., Nixdorf R., Basangwa D., Nakku J., Mpango R., Ryan G., Shamba D., Ramesh M.,  Ngakongwa F., Grayzman A., Pathare S., Mayer B., Puschner B.

Challenges to peer support in low- and middle-income countries during COVID-19  Global Health 16, 90 (2020). Mpango, R., Kalha, J., Shamba, D., Ramesh M., Ngakongwa F., Kulkarni A., Korde P., Nakku J., Ryan G.

Typology of modifications to peer support work for adults with mental health problems: systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 216, 301-307(2020). Charles A., Thompson D., Nixdorf R., Ryan G., Shamba D., Kalha J., Moran G., Hiltensperger R., Mahlke C., Puschner B., Repper J., Slade M., Mpango R.

Using Peer Support in Developing Empowering Mental Health Services (UPSIDES): Background, Rationale and Methodology. Annals of Global Health. 85(1), 53 (2019). Puschner B., Repper J., Mahlke C., Nixdorf R., Basangwa D., Nakku J., Ryan G., Baillie D., Shamba D., Ramesh M., Moran G., Lachmann M., Kalha J., Pathare S., Müller-Stierlin A., Slade M.

Service user involvement in global mental health: what have we learned from recent research in low and middle-income countries? Curr Opin Psychiatr. 32, 355–360 (2019). Ryan G., Semrau M., Nkurunungi E., Mpango R.

Peer support and global mental health, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 27(5), 413-414 (2018). Bernd Puschner

Books and book chapters

in development…

Conference Contributions

Nixdorf R., Charles A., Gai Meir L., Garber-Epstein P., Hadas Grundman S., Hiltensperger R., Kulkarni A., Mtei R., Puschner B., Ryan G., Slade M., Mahlke C. (2020). Development of a global mental health peer support worker training program. Poster, GACD Annual Scientific Meeting, 10-13/11/2020, online: Download

DGPPN Kogress: Download

GACD Annual Scientific Meeting on the implementation of UPSIDES by Ramona Hiltensperger: Download

Nakku J. (2019). Developing Service User Involvement in Mental Health Care in Uganda. Poster, GACD Annual Scientific Meeting, 13-15/11/2019, Bangkok, Thailand: Download

Nixdorf R., Heuer I. (2020). UPSIDES: development of a global peer support intervention. Paper in Symposium “UPSIDES: a global peer support project”, DGPPN Kongress (online), 26-28/11/2020: Watch

Kalha J. (2020). Peer support: experiences from Uganda, Tanzania and India. Paper in Symposium “UPSIDES: a global peer support project”, DGPPN Kongress (online), 26-28/11/2020: Watch

Ryan G. (2020). Peer support and corona: challenges and outlook. Paper in Symposium “UPSIDES: a global peer support project”, DGPPN Kongress (online), 26-28/11/2020: Watch

Wenzel L., Moran G. (2020). Implementation of the UPSIDES peer support intervention: first experiences from Israel and Germany. Paper in Symposium “UPSIDES: a global peer support project”, DGPPN Kongress (online), 26-28/11/2020: Watch

Translation of scales used in the UPSIDES RCT

These are the translations of outcome measures that have been developed during the UPSIDES project. If a cell is empty, it means a translation was already freely available before the UPSIDES study. The scales are abbreviated below as follows:

Social Inclusion Measure (SIM), Empowerment Scale (ES), Stages of Recovery Instrument (STORI-30), brief INSPIRE (brief INSPIRE), Health of the Nation outcome scales (HoNos), Client Sociodemographic and Service Receipt Inventory (CSSRI), Threshold assessment grid (TAG), Mental Illness: Clinician’s Attitudes Scale (MICA-4), Recovery-oriented peer provider (ROPP), Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA-R).