Jasmine Kalha

TL;DR: This systematic review identified influences which facilitate or are barriers to implementation of mental health peer support work and provide a theory base to prepare research sites for implementing peer support worker interventions.

TL;DR: The rationale and methodology of an international multicentre study which will scale-up peer support for people with severe mental illness in high-, middle- and low-income countries through mixed-methods implementation research are described.

TL;DR: By actively involving and empowering service users, UPSIDES will move mental health systems toward a recovery orientation, emphasising user-centredness, community participation and the realisation of mental health as a human right.

TL;DR: The mental health system in India, recent mental health reforms in India and a description of introducing peer support workers as part of a quality improvement project in mental health services in Gujarat, India are outlined.

TL;DR: An evaluation of the first large-scale implementation and evaluation of QualityRights as a scalable human rights-based approach in public mental health services in Gujarat, India shows that quality of services provided by those services receiving the QualityR Rights intervention improved significantly.