ArticleDevelopmental medicine and child neurology2025
Development of a new social prescribing intervention for families of children with cerebral palsy.
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- Evaluating co-design approaches with parents in paediatric healthcare: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Let us stop admiring the problem: we need social prescribing for children with disability now.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- EPIC-ND: a multi-site, randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of social prescribing for the unmet social needs of children with a neurodisability and their parent/carers - a study protocol.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- Understanding the successes and challenges of a social prescribing program for children and youth in Canada: a qualitative evaluation.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Promoting Exercise as a Therapeutic Intervention in Multiple Sclerosis: Barriers, Efficacy, and Social Prescribing Strategies.Cardiology and cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Creating and sustaining enabling systems and communities to address social needs: protocol for a living lab social prescribing study.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- The context, need, limitations, and delivery of children and young people's social prescribing.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2025Article
- Development of a new social prescribing intervention for families of children with cerebral palsy.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2025Article
- Caregiver and clinician perceptions of barriers to cerebral palsy healthcare-mixed methods findings and systems change recommendations.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Social Determinants of Health in Cerebral Palsy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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aimTo co-design a social prescribing intervention (the EPIC-CP programme: Equitable Pathways and Integrated Care in Cerebral Palsy) with children with cerebral palsy (CP), their families, and clinicians to address unmet social needs.
methodThe study was conducted (August 2021 to March 2023) at the paediatric rehabilitation departments of the three tertiary paediatric hospitals in New South Wales, Australia. Eligible participants attended or worked at one of the departments, including children with CP, parents/caregivers, and clinicians. Mixed-methods co-design was used in intervention co-production and prototyping. The project was overseen by research advisors with lived experience of CP.
resultsMore than 200 participants contributed to the co-design research. Families experienced a substantial burden of unmet social needs. Co-designed interventions involved systematic identification of unmet social needs with (1) targeted community resources and (2) engagement with a 'community linker' who supported children/young people and their families to access health, education, and social services that matched their identified needs and preferences. Research participants co-developed the programme logic model and prototype. This was piloted in research action cycles and iteratively refined until consensus was achieved.
interpretationWe co-designed a social prescribing programme responsive to the needs of its end-users and purposefully developed to be embedded in the Australian health setting. A pilot randomized controlled trial will further evaluate this intervention.
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