Text message exchanges between older adults with serious mental illness and older certified peer specialists in a smartphone-supported self-management intervention.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
Karen L FortunaStephen J Bartels

Abstract

To identify the strategies peer specialists use to provide illness self-management support for older adults with serious mental illness (SMI) through text messaging. Transcripts of text message exchanges between 8 older adult participants with SMI who completed the PeerTECH intervention and 3 older adult certified peer specialists who delivered the 12-week program were analyzed. Text message analyses explored themes relevant to peer support and health behavior change. Quantitative data comprised frequency of text messages by either the peer or consumer. Consumers (N = 8) had a mean age of 68.8 years (SD = 4.9) and were mainly women (88%), White (100%), and married (75%). Certified peer specialists (N = 3) were all 55 or older; 100% were female, 66% identified as White, and 33% identified as African American. Overall, peers sent 215 text messages whereas consumers sent 141 text messages. In the peer specialist-consumer text message exchanges, we identified 4 themes on different aspects of illness self-management, including health behavior change, self-management therapeutic techniques, engagement in health technology, and peer support. This exploratory qualitative study offers preliminary support that peers are able to use text ...Continue Reading

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Jan 15, 2020·JMIR MHealth and UHealth·LaPrincess C BrewerLisa A Cooper
Nov 10, 2020·Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science·Karen L FortunaJessica M Brooks
Sep 1, 2019·Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry·Karen L FortunaJessica M Brooks
Jun 15, 2019·Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science·Karen L FortunaPhillip I Chow
Aug 28, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Marianne StormKaren L Fortuna

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