Text message exchanges between older adults with serious mental illness and older certified peer specialists in a smartphone-supported self-management intervention.

This exploratory qualitative study offers preliminary support that peers are able to use text messages to support the delivery of a peer-delivered home-based medical and psychiatric self-management intervention. Certified peer specialists can potentially provide a range of illness self-management support to older adults with SMI via text messaging. These findings will inform the development of standardized peer text-messaging services to augment evidence-based illness self-management interventions for older adults with SMI. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).