INcreasing Adolescent social and Community supporT (INACT): Pilot study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social prescribing is a mechanism for connecting patients with non-medical forms of support within the community and has been shown to improve loneliness. Yet uptake from young people (YP) has been lower than for adults. That is thought to be the case because young people are less likely to engage with primary care for wellbeing support, where social prescribing is based. The INACT study will pilot a social prescribing pathway via schools to support young people who are lonely, testing its feasibility and acceptability of delivering, and evaluating its impact on loneliness through a randomised controlled trial.

Methods

This pilot study utilises a two-group (intervention vs. active control) parallel randomised design, with YP as the unit of randomisation. Approxima

SUBMITTER: Hayes D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11940566 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature