O'Sullivan, DJ; Bearne, LM; Harrington, JM; McVeigh, JG
(2024)
Experience and perceptions of Social Prescribing interventions; a qualitative study with people with long-term conditions, link workers and health care providers.
HRB Open Res, 6.
p. 42.
ISSN 2515-4826
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13762.3
SGUL Authors: Bearne, Lindsay Mary
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Long-term conditions (LTC) are a leading cause of reduced quality of life and early mortality. People with LTC are living longer with increasing economic and social needs. Novel patient centred care pathways are required to support traditional medical management of these patients. Social Prescribing (SP) has gained popularity as a non-medical approach to support patients with LTC and their unmet health needs. The current focus group study aims to explore the experiences and perceptions to SP interventions from the perspective of people with long-term conditions, link workers, healthcare providers and community-based services. METHODS: Six-eight participants will be recruited into three specific 60-minute focus groups relative to their role as a patient, link worker and community-based service. Eight-12 participants with a Health care provider and GP background will be interviewed individually online. The participants within these focus groups and semi-structured interviews will be invited to provide opinions on what factors they think are important to the successful implementation of a SP service from their respective stakeholder positions. The data will be recorded and exported to NVivo software for further analysis using Thematic Reflexive analysis methods. Coded categorical data will inform emerging themes from which a narrative summary will be consolidated and presented for dissemination. CONCLUSION: The conclusions made from this study will help inform the next study, which will aim to develop a pilot SP service for patients with long-term musculoskeletal conditions as part of an overall larger project.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | © 2024 O'Sullivan DJ et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Social Prescribing, community health worker, focus groups, link worker, long-term conditions, self-management |
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH) |
Journal or Publication Title: | HRB Open Res |
ISSN: | 2515-4826 |
Language: | eng |
Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 |
PubMed ID: | 38283947 |
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/116070 |
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13762.3 |
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