The social cure of social prescribing: a mixed-methods study on the benefits of social connectedness on quality and effectiveness of care provision.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to assess the degree to which the 'social cure' model of psychosocial health captures the understandings and experiences of healthcare staff and patients in a social prescribing (SP) pathway and the degree to which these psychosocial processes predict the effect of the pathway on healthcare usage.

Design

Mixed-methods: Study 1: semistructured interviews; study 2: longitudinal survey.

Setting

An English SP pathway delivered between 2017 and 2019.

Participants

Study 1: general practitioners (GPs) (n=7), healthcare providers (n=9) and service users (n=19). Study 2: 630 patients engaging with SP pathway at a 4-month follow-up after initial referral assessment.

Intervention

Chronically ill patients experiencing loneliness referred

SUBMITTER: Kellezi B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887058 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature