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Multi-Stakeholder Retrospective Acceptability of a Peer Support Intervention for Exercise Referral
Perceived social support opportunities are central to successful exercise referral scheme (ERS) client experiences. However, there remains a lack of guidance on how ERSs can embed social support opportunities within their provision. This study presents retrospective acceptability findings from a 12-...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7916654/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33578966 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041720 |
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author | Portman, Robert M. Levy, Andrew R. Maher, Anthony J. Fairclough, Stuart J. |
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description | Perceived social support opportunities are central to successful exercise referral scheme (ERS) client experiences. However, there remains a lack of guidance on how ERSs can embed social support opportunities within their provision. This study presents retrospective acceptability findings from a 12-week social-identity-informed peer support intervention to enhance perceived social support among clients of an English ERS. Five peer volunteers were recruited, trained, and deployed in supervised ERS sessions across two sites. Peers assisted exercise referral officers (EROs) by providing supplementary practical, informational, motivational, and emotional support to ERS clients. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with peers (n = 4), EROs (n = 2), and clients (n = 5) and analysed thematically. The analysis identified three primary themes. The first theme detailed how EROs utilised peer volunteers to supplement the ERS client experience. This theme delineated peer roles within the ERS context and identified salient individual peer characteristics that contributed to their success. The second theme described peer acceptability among the various stakeholders. Peers were valued for their ability to reduce burden on EROs and to enhance perceptions of comfort among ERS clients. The final theme presented participant feedback regarding how the intervention may be further refined and enhanced. Peers represented a cost-effective and acceptable means of providing auxiliary social support to ERS clients. Moving forward, the structured integration of peers can improve the accessibility of social support among ERS participants, thus facilitating better rates of ERS completion. |
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spelling | pubmed-79166542021-03-01 Multi-Stakeholder Retrospective Acceptability of a Peer Support Intervention for Exercise Referral Portman, Robert M. Levy, Andrew R. Maher, Anthony J. Fairclough, Stuart J. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Perceived social support opportunities are central to successful exercise referral scheme (ERS) client experiences. However, there remains a lack of guidance on how ERSs can embed social support opportunities within their provision. This study presents retrospective acceptability findings from a 12-week social-identity-informed peer support intervention to enhance perceived social support among clients of an English ERS. Five peer volunteers were recruited, trained, and deployed in supervised ERS sessions across two sites. Peers assisted exercise referral officers (EROs) by providing supplementary practical, informational, motivational, and emotional support to ERS clients. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with peers (n = 4), EROs (n = 2), and clients (n = 5) and analysed thematically. The analysis identified three primary themes. The first theme detailed how EROs utilised peer volunteers to supplement the ERS client experience. This theme delineated peer roles within the ERS context and identified salient individual peer characteristics that contributed to their success. The second theme described peer acceptability among the various stakeholders. Peers were valued for their ability to reduce burden on EROs and to enhance perceptions of comfort among ERS clients. The final theme presented participant feedback regarding how the intervention may be further refined and enhanced. Peers represented a cost-effective and acceptable means of providing auxiliary social support to ERS clients. Moving forward, the structured integration of peers can improve the accessibility of social support among ERS participants, thus facilitating better rates of ERS completion. MDPI 2021-02-10 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7916654/ /pubmed/33578966 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041720 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Portman, Robert M. Levy, Andrew R. Maher, Anthony J. Fairclough, Stuart J. Multi-Stakeholder Retrospective Acceptability of a Peer Support Intervention for Exercise Referral |
title | Multi-Stakeholder Retrospective Acceptability of a Peer Support Intervention for Exercise Referral |
title_full | Multi-Stakeholder Retrospective Acceptability of a Peer Support Intervention for Exercise Referral |
title_fullStr | Multi-Stakeholder Retrospective Acceptability of a Peer Support Intervention for Exercise Referral |
title_full_unstemmed | Multi-Stakeholder Retrospective Acceptability of a Peer Support Intervention for Exercise Referral |
title_short | Multi-Stakeholder Retrospective Acceptability of a Peer Support Intervention for Exercise Referral |
title_sort | multi-stakeholder retrospective acceptability of a peer support intervention for exercise referral |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7916654/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33578966 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041720 |
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