Peers Actively Involved in Rehabilitation: Transforming Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation (PAIR TBI)
Peers Actively Involved in Rehabilitation: Transforming Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation (PAIR TBI)
Peer support is an important and evidence-based intervention for people with traumatic brain injury; peer support can offer hope, build resilience, and navigate through the complexities of life with a brain injury. The PAIR program (Peers Actively Involved in Rehabilitation) was developed with researchers and community partners to provide peer support intervention to people within their first year after brain injury, facilitated by peer support workers who have longer experience with brain injury.
The PAIR project uses an implementation framework and patient-oriented participatory approach, which means that people with lived experience will contribute their expertise to the design of the research from start to finish, ensuring that it aligns with their priorities and centres on issues that they have identified as important. This project is partnered with BC Brain Injury Association and the Nanaimo Brain Injury Association.
The PAIR project aims to provide evidence for the use of peer support among people living with TBI, easing the transition from rehabilitation centres to the community, ensuring better provision of services, and, ultimately, improving the health and quality of life of people living with TBI.
Funding: Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Michael Smith Health Research – BC (MSHR-BC)