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The experience of peer support specialists in Singapore’s mental health services: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Transcripts of six interviews with peer support specialists in Singapore.

[Abstract: Related publication]: Recovery-oriented mental health care approach is gaining acceptance in Asian countries, including Singapore. Following Western countries, Singapore started hiring peer support specialists (PSS) as part of mental health intervention. The purpose of this paper was to explore and understand experiences of PSS broadly in their work, their recovery journey, and their hopes for mental health services. Six PSS in Singapore were interviewed utilising a semi-structured interview schedule. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four superordinate themes were generated illustrating how PSS viewed their role: embracing recovery, walking on a tightrope, support is essential, and helping to end stigma. Findings also illustrated participants’ awareness of the nature of the job and the role of PSS as still in the infancy stage. They embraced a recovery-oriented mindset despite experiencing stigma from professionals and/or their social support. The need to improve existing systems to enable PSS to perform their roles efficiently were also suggested. The limitations, contributions to the research, and several areas for future research are also outlined. 

Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Audio recorder and Microsoft Office

Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data: Microsoft Office

The full methodology will be made available in the publication shown in the Related Publications link below.

This dataset consists of six de-identified interview transcripts saved in PDF format.
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    Data Publication title The experience of peer support specialists in Singapore’s mental health services: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
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    Transcripts of six interviews with peer support specialists in Singapore.

    [Abstract: Related publication]: Recovery-oriented mental health care approach is gaining acceptance in Asian countries, including Singapore. Following Western countries, Singapore started hiring peer support specialists (PSS) as part of mental health intervention. The purpose of this paper was to explore and understand experiences of PSS broadly in their work, their recovery journey, and their hopes for mental health services. Six PSS in Singapore were interviewed utilising a semi-structured interview schedule. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four superordinate themes were generated illustrating how PSS viewed their role: embracing recovery, walking on a tightrope, support is essential, and helping to end stigma. Findings also illustrated participants’ awareness of the nature of the job and the role of PSS as still in the infancy stage. They embraced a recovery-oriented mindset despite experiencing stigma from professionals and/or their social support. The need to improve existing systems to enable PSS to perform their roles efficiently were also suggested. The limitations, contributions to the research, and several areas for future research are also outlined. 

    Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Audio recorder and Microsoft Office

    Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data: Microsoft Office

    The full methodology will be made available in the publication shown in the Related Publications link below.

    This dataset consists of six de-identified interview transcripts saved in PDF format.

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      Word documents containing transcripts of six audio-recorded interviews with peer support Specialists in Singapore
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  • Keywords
    • peer support specialist
    • peer support
    • recovery
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    • JCU Student funding
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    People and Societies in the Tropics
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  • Start Date 2018/01/01
  • End Date 2018/12/31
    • Time Period 12 months
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    • Singapore
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    The Data Manager is: Joanna Barlas
    College or Centre School of Social and Health Sciences, James Cook University Singapore
    Access conditions Conditional: Contact researchdata@jcu.edu.au to request access to this data.
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    • Data record size 6 files: 16.2MB
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    Citation Ng, Lynn; Barlas, Joanna (2022): The experience of peer support specialists in Singapore’s mental health services: An interpretative phenomenological analysis . James Cook University. https://doi.org/10.25903/z92x-1w08