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The iPeer2Peer program connects teenagers (ages 12–17) who have been diagnosed with heart failure to trained peer mentors (ages 18–30) who also have heart disease. Over 15 weeks, mentees and mentors will video call and text each other about 5–10 times to share experiences, provide support, and help with managing daily heart health tasks. The study wants to see whether this kind of peer mentoring improves how teenagers feel about their health and how well they take care of themselves.
Many teenagers feel isolated after a heart failure diagnosis and struggle to manage their care on their own. This program tries to fill that gap by pairing them with young adults who truly understand what they're going through, hoping that real peer support will make a big difference in how they cope and stay healthy.
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If you're a teenager, you'll be paired with a trained peer mentor and meet over video calls or text messaging about once a week for 15 weeks to talk about living with heart failure and managing your health. If you're a young adult mentor, you'll first complete 20 hours of online training on how to mentor and use technology, then meet regularly with your assigned teenager mentee. Both mentees and mentors will answer surveys and interviews at the start, middle, and end of the program so researchers can understand how the mentoring helped.
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