Effectiveness and active ingredients of social prescribing interventions targeting mental health: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aims to establish the effectiveness and active ingredients of UK-based social prescribing interventions targeting mental health and well-being outcomes.

Design

Systematic review adhering to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysies guidelines and a published protocol.

Data sources

Nine databases were systematically searched up to March 2022.

Eligibility criteria

Social prescribing interventions in the UK involving adults aged ≥18 years, which reported on mental health outcomes.

Data extraction and synthesis

Two reviewers extracted data on study characteristics; outcomes; referral pathways; treatment fidelity strategies; person-centredness; intervention development processes and theory-linked behaviour change

SUBMITTER: Cooper M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328101 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature