Assessing the impact of care farms on quality of life and offending: a pilot study among probation service users in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the feasibility of conducting a cost-effectiveness study of using care farms (CFs) to improve quality of life and reduce reoffending among offenders undertaking community orders (COs). To pilot questionnaires to assess quality of life, connection to nature, lifestyle behaviours, health and social-care use. To assess recruitment and retention at 6 months and feasibility of data linkage to Police National Computer (PNC) reconvictions data and data held by probation services.

Design

Pilot study using questionnaires to assess quality of life, individually linked to police and probation data.

Setting

The pilot study was conducted in three probation service regions in England. Each site included a CF and at least one comparator CO project. CFs are worki

SUBMITTER: Elsey H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5875661 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature