SynthesisBMC public health2025
The use of social prescribing and community-based wellbeing activities as a potential prevention and early intervention pathway to improve adolescent emotional and social development: a systematic mapping review.
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- The use of social prescribing and community-based wellbeing activities as a potential prevention and early intervention pathway to improve adolescent emotional and social development: a systematic mapping review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Social prescribing for children and young people in the UK: characterising access and care pathways using electronic health records.BMJ open · 2026Article
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- Wellbeing While Waiting: Effectiveness and implementation of youth social prescribing for young people awaiting CAMHS support.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Using electronic health records to evaluate a children and young people's social prescribing service: challenges and implications for research and practice.BMJ mental health · 2026Article
- Pathways to labor engagement: young people's experiences of social prescribing as a response to the NEET phenomenon.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Barriers and facilitators to implementing social prescribing in child and adolescent mental health services: a qualitative analysis using the consolidated framework for implementation research.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- ArtsRx as an arts prescribing model: leveraging CRM data to understand participation and engagement.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
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Abstract
backgroundSocial prescribing (SP) initiatives which aim to connect individuals to community-based assets have received increased research and policy attention, however schemes have mostly centred on adults. There is little research examining how social prescribing might work for children and young people (CYP), and specifically, what pathways into social prescribing look like for this group.
methodsWe conducted a systematic mapping review to understand what social prescribing pathways look like for CYP. Searches were carried out in February 2022. We reviewed published journal articles and grey literature on pathways for CYP accessing activities or services in the community. We synthesised studies through tabulation and narrative descriptions of similarities and differences.
resultsWe identified 14,518 unique hits through electronic database searches, and an additional 230 through grey literature searches. Following exclusions at title/abstract and full text stage, a total of 35 articles from the database searches and 33 sources from the grey literature search were included in the review. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionIncluded papers described a broad range of approaches, cohorts, implementation, and roles included in services. Pathways into SP for CYP seem to vary from the adult SP model, which primarily utilises a primary care pathway, with referrals for CYP SP mostly through educational institutions but also through GPs and self-referral. Link workers or another 'linking function' was often (but not always) involved in the pathway. Future research should examine how and in what ways particular cohorts access, or not, these sorts of pathways, the economic impact, and examine any potential risks or harms that might be associated with CYP-SP.
fundingNational Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (project reference MH003).
trial registrationPROSPERO 2022 CRD42022312745.
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