Evaluation of the SHARE! Peer Toolkit Training

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: SHARE! Peer Toolkit Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05382416

HSC-SPH-22-0294

Details and patient eligibility

About

SHARE! the Self-Help and Recovery Exchange will engage peer workers in their Peer Toolkit training, which is designed to improve the performance of peer workers in their provision of peer support. The Peer Toolkit training currently has a waitlist of peer workers interested in taking the course for professional development purposes. These peer workers and their supervisors will be invited to complete a web-based survey at baseline and 4-month follow-up. Peer workers will be randomly assigned to enroll in the Peer Toolkit training immediately or after the follow-up survey. Analyses will compare participants who had the opportunity to complete the training to those still waiting to start the training. This study will inform the use of the Peer Toolkit as a training mechanism to build the capacity of peer workers in the mental health workforce.

Full description

SHARE! the Self-Help and Recovery Exchange will engage peer workers in their Peer Toolkit training, which is designed to improve the performance of peer workers in their provision of peer support. The training covers each of the 12 tools in the Peer Toolkit, which are taught through brief presentations followed by group discussions and interactive exercises to help people competently use each of the tools. The training is offered both online and in-person, requires 60 hours of time, and is typically completed over the course of 4 months. Participation in the training is optional.

The Peer Toolkit training currently has a waitlist of peer workers interested in taking the course for professional development purposes. These peer workers and their supervisors will be invited to complete a web-based survey at baseline and 4-month follow-up. Peer workers will be randomly assigned to enroll in the Peer Toolkit training immediately or after the follow-up survey. Analyses will compare participants who had the opportunity to complete the training to those who are still waiting to start the training. This study will inform the use of the Peer Toolkit as a training mechanism to build the capacity of peer workers in the mental health workforce.

Enrollment: 272 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants must be employed as a peer worker or as the supervisor of a peer worker participating in the study.
• Participants must be willing to attend the SHARE! Peer Toolkit Training, which takes 60 hours to complete.

Exclusion criteria

• Peer workers who do not receive pay and volunteer for less than 15 hours per week

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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272 participants in 2 patient groups

Peer Toolkit Training

Experimental group

Description:

Participants assigned to this arm will attend online or in-person trainings on the SHARE! Peer Toolkit, which requires 60 hours of time to be completed over 10 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SHARE! Peer Toolkit Training

Wait-list Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The wait-list control will continue practice as usual and not receive peer toolkit training until after the follow-up data collection.