ArticleFrontiers in psychology2024
A controlled evaluation of social prescribing on loneliness for adults in Queensland: 8-week outcomes.
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- Social prescribing for suicide prevention: a rapid review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Caring for the lonely: an ethical case for social prescribing against loneliness.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2026Article
- Educational standards for Australian social prescribing link workers: a modified Delphi study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Models, implementation, and reported outcomes of social prescribing interventions: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Effectiveness and value of relationships in link worker social prescribing over an 18-month follow up period.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- The dual impact of social prescribing: targeting social determinants to enhance quality of life in chronic conditions.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Creating and sustaining enabling systems and communities to address social needs: protocol for a living lab social prescribing study.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Healthier together. How arts on prescription can promote psychosocial wellbeing: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Social prescribing for suicide prevention: a proposed model for Australia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- The process of co-designing a model of social prescribing: An Australian case study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: There have been few controlled evaluations of Social Prescribing (SP), in which link workers support lonely individuals to engage with community-based social activities. This study reports early outcomes of a trial comparing General Practitioner treatment-as-usual (TAU) with TAU combined with Social Prescribing (SP) in adults experiencing loneliness in Queensland. Methods: Participants were 114 individuals who were non-randomly assigned to one of two conditions (SP, Results: Retention was high (79.4%) in the SP condition. Time × condition interaction effects were found for loneliness and social trust, with improvement observed only in SP participants over the 8-week period. SP participants reported significant improvement on all other outcomes with small-to-moderate effect sizes (ULS-8 loneliness, wellbeing, psychological distress, social anxiety). However, interaction effects did not reach significance. Discussion: Social prescribing effects were small to moderate at the 8-week follow up. Group-based activities are available in communities across Australia, however, further research using well-matched control samples and longer-term follow ups are required to provide robust evidence to support a wider roll out.
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