Jessica M. Brooks

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered factors linked to loneliness among 701 adults aged 50 years and older with chronic conditions from Michigan (82.5%) and 33 other U.S. states and found that being a person of color, having a spouse or cohabiting partner, and more emotional support were associated with lower levels of loneliness.

TL;DR: The Digital Peer Support Certification shows promising evidence of increasing the capacity of peer support specialists to use specific digital peer support technology features, and highlighted that this capacity was less likely to increase with training alone and that a combinational knowledge translation approach that includes both training and management will be more successful.

TL;DR: This study suggests that peer support specialists can uniquely contribute to the coordination of physical health and mental health services for individuals with serious mental illness.

TL;DR: A higher number of psychiatric hospitalizations in the past 6 months were associated with greater loneliness, and the Short-Form-12 mental component score was a highly significant correlate, accounting for a significant amount of variance in loneliness scores.

TL;DR: This study examined certified peer specialists’ perceptions of the barriers and facilitators to mobile health (mHealth) engagement and identified one emerging theme identified was the belief that mHealth interventions may promote social isolation if not designed appropriately.