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    The impact of social prescribing services on service users: a systematic review of the evidence

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    Authors
    Pescheny, Julia Vera
    Randhawa, Gurch
    Pappas, Yannis
    Affiliation
    University of Bedfordshire
    Issue Date
    2019-06-14
    Subjects
    patient referral
    primary health care
    self concept
    evidence-based practice
    prescribing behaviour
    community
    feelings
    NHS
    L510 Health & Welfare
    
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    Abstract
    Social prescribing initiatives are widely implemented in the UK National Health Service to integrate health and social care. Social prescribing is a service in primary care that links patients with non-medical needs to sources of support provided by the community and voluntary sector to help improve their health and wellbeing. Such programmes usually include navigators, who work with referred patients and issue onward referrals to sources of non-medical support. This systematic review aimed to assess the evidence of service user outcomes of social prescribing programmes based on primary care and involving navigators. We searched 11 databases, the grey literature, and the reference lists of relevant studies to identify the available evidence on the impact of social prescribing on service users. Searches were limited to literature written in English. No date restrictions were applied, and searches were conducted to June 2018. Findings were synthesized narratively, employing thematic analysis. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool Version 2011 was used to evaluate the methodological quality of included studies. Sixteen studies met the inclusion criteria. The evidence base is mixed, some studies found improvements in health and wellbeing, health-related behaviours, self-concepts, feelings, social contacts and day-to-day functioning post-social prescribing, whereas others have not. The review also shows that the evaluation methodologies utilized were variable in quality. In order to assess the success of social prescribing services, more high quality and comparable evaluations need to be conducted in the future.International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews number: CRD42017079664.
    Citation
    Pescheny JV, Randhawa G, Pappas Y (2019) 'The impact of social prescribing services on service users: a systematic review of the evidence', European Journal of Public Health, 30 (4), pp.664-673.
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Journal
    European Journal of Public Health
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623626
    DOI
    10.1093/eurpub/ckz078
    PubMed ID
    31199436
    Additional Links
    https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/eurpub/ckz078/5519001
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1101-1262
    EISSN
    1464-360X
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1093/eurpub/ckz078
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