As a means for supporting a range of health and wellbeing goals, social prescribing programmes have been implemented around the world. Reflecting a range of contexts, needs, innovation, and programming, a broad array of outcomes has been studied in relation to these programmes.
This mapping review explores the broad array of social prescribing outcomes that have been studied in 13 countries and maps the outcomes that have been most commonly studied. The review includes outcomes from a number of arts on prescription programmes.
The most commonly studied categories of patient outcomes were found to be mental health, lifestyle and behaviour, and patient/service user experience. The most commonly studied system outcomes were healthcare/service utilization and financial/economic outcomes.
This review lays a foundation for the development of key common outcomes and a Core Outcomes Set for social prescribing.
Author:
Sonke et al
Publisher:
Frontiers in Medicine
Year:
2023
Context:
Social Prescribing
Artform:
Various