Lived-Experience Interventions

Uses

How it works

Benefits

Comparisons

Evidence quality

Highlighted claims

• The evidence for lived-experience interventions is rated as low certainty due to very high heterogeneity across studies. — Effect of medical school initiatives on help seeking for mental health problems among medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• In controlled comparisons, face-to-face lived-experience formats showed no statistically significant superiority over video-based or standard placement comparators. — Effect of medical school initiatives on help seeking for mental health problems among medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Video-based lived-experience formats are considered a viable scalable alternative to face-to-face delivery. — Effect of medical school initiatives on help seeking for mental health problems among medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Lived-experience interventions were associated with improved help-seeking attitudes, with a pooled pre-post effect size of SMD 0.62. — Effect of medical school initiatives on help seeking for mental health problems among medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Lived-experience interventions may work by disrupting the power asymmetry between patient and professional and demonstrating that recovery is achievable. — Effect of medical school initiatives on help seeking for mental health problems among medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• When the lived-experience presenter is a practicing physician, their story provides concrete evidence that a medical career is compatible with having a mental illness. — Effect of medical school initiatives on help seeking for mental health problems among medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis