Citation

Thekkumkara SN, Jagannathan A, Muliyala KP, Murthy P. Indian J. Psychiatry 2022; 64(3): 316-321.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Medknow Publications)

DOI

10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_416_21

PMID

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of mental health problems and substance use disorders is high in prisons. There is a need to develop effective and sustainable models in prison to address their mental health demands.

AIM: The study aimed to develop and validate a peer support programme (PSP) for prisoners with common mental and substance use disorders (SUD).

METHOD: The PSP was developed by reviewing the literature and expert interviews and validated by seven experts.

RESULT: The expert interview brought out a total of 10 themes. The final components included in the content of the peer support interventions were information about mental health issues, identification of the cases, basic counseling skills, psycho-education, early warning signs and symptoms, managing substance use by motivational interviewing, and suicidal gatekeeping.

CONCLUSION: This study describes the development of a comprehensive PSP, and it needs to be tested to examine its feasibility and effectiveness in addressing mental health problems in prison settings. © 2022 Indian Journal of Psychiatry.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; development; human; mental health; suicide; female; male; prison; prisoners; substance use; interview; validation study; major clinical study; mental disease; prisoner; drug dependence; information processing; peer group; Mental illness; Article; content validity; peer support