Understanding How Peer Support Helps in Mental Health Care
ConditionNo Condition
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18-65
SponsorUniversity of Bordeaux
About this trial
The goal of this observational study is to better understand the psychological processes associated with professional peer support among adults using psychiatric services. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Do users perceive greater similarity and less dehumanization with peer workers compared with other mental health professionals? Are perceived similarity and dehumanization associated with users' empowerment and hope? Researchers will compare participants' perceptions of a peer worker and another mental health professional who have supported them during the past 12 months.
Participants will complete an online questionnaire about their experiences with both professionals, including measures of perceived similarity, therapeutic alliance, perceived dehumanization, empowerment, and hope. The order in which participants answer questions about the peer worker and the other mental health professional will be randomized.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Experiencing or having experienced mental health difficulties. Having received support from mental health professionals within the past 12 months.
Having received support from a professional peer worker within the past 12 months.
Being able to identify a specific mental health professional who provided support during the past 12 months.
Being able to identify a specific professional peer worker who provided support during the past 12 months.
Disqualifiers
Not meeting inclusion criteria
Not understanding French
Have expressed their objection to taking part by not ticking the box stating "I have read the information above and declare that I do not object to the use of my data for the purposes of this research"
Trial population
Adults experiencing or having experienced mental health difficulties who have received support from both a professional peer worker and another mental health professional within the past 12 months. Participants will be recruited in France through mental health services, professional and peer-support networks, associations, and online communication channels
Trial design
Design model
Other
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Treatments tested in this trial
Perceptions of professional peer support and mental health professional support
Other interventionNo active intervention is administered as part of this observational study. Participants will complete an online questionnaire about their experiences with a professional peer worker and another mental health professional who have supported them within the past 12 months. For each professional, participants will complete measures of perceived similarity and perceived dehumanization, therapeutic alliance as well as measures of empowerment and hope. The order of the two assessment conditions will be randomized.
Treatment groups
160 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupGroup A: Mental health service users1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
French Empowerment scale (Designes et al. 2025)
French Empowerment Scale (ES), 18 items, from 1 (strongly agree) to 4 (strongly disagree). Min = 18 Max = 72. Higher score on the scale indicates a high level of empowerment.
Time frame
At enrollment, referring to support received within the past 12 months.Other outcomes
1
French version of the Adult dispositional hope scale (Gana et al. 2012)
French version of the adult dispositional hope scale (ADHS), 12 items, from 1 (always false) to 8 (always true). Min = 8 Max = 64. Higher score on the scale indicates a high level of dispositional hope.
Time frame
At enrollment, referring to support received within the past 12 months2
Perceived similarity
Created and pre tested measure, 1 item, from 1 (very different) to 6 (very similar). Min=1 Max = 6. Higher score indicates a high level of similarity.
Time frame
At enrollment, referring to support received within the past 12 months.3
The experience of dehumanization measurement (Gollossenko et al. 2023)
The experience of dehumanization measurement (EDHM), adapted to french following best-practice guidelines, 10 items, from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Min = 10 Max = 50. Higher score on the scale indicates a high level of perceived dehumanization
Time frame
At enrollment, referring to support received within the past 12 months4
Working alliance inventory short form (Corbière et al. 2006)
Working Alliance Inventory Short Form (WAISF), 12 items, from 1(never) to 7 (always). Min = 12 Max = 84. Higher score on the scale indicates a high level of therapeutic alliance
Time frame
At enrollment, referring to support received within the past 12 monthsSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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