Partnership with Center for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida
In this project we are supporting the evaluation of social prescribing initiatives in 22 sites in the US, building on prior statistical findings and work in the UK. As part of this work, we have undertaken a series of case studies to document the landscape of social prescribing initiatives across the US and have applied an implementation science research framework to assess their feasibility, acceptability, and suitability.
We will also develop a set of key common outcomes for social prescribing in the US. You can read our mapping review of the evidence from 13 countries to identify key common social prescribing outcomes here. We plan to conduct focus groups in 18 communities in partnership with the One Nation/One Project initiative. With our findings from this we will:
- Establish an outcomes framework for guiding social prescribing development and research in the US; and
- Inform future development of a formal core outcomes set (COS) for evaluating social prescribing in the US.