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Wakefield, J. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9155-9683, Kellezi, B. ORCID: 0000-0003-4825-3624, Stevenson, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-2438-6425, McNamara, N. ORCID: 0000-0003-3123-3678, Bowe, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-0491-1472, Wilson, I. ORCID: 0000-0001-6670-9328, Halder, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-1608-6027 and Mair, E.,
2020.
Social prescribing as 'social cure': a longitudinal study of the health benefits of social connectedness within a social prescribing pathway.
Journal of Health Psychology.
ISSN 1359-1053
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Abstract
We examined whether the Social Cure (SC) perspective explains the efficacy of a Social Prescribing (SP) pathway which addresses healthcare needs through enhancing social connections. Data were collected at pathway entry from patients with long-term health conditions, or who felt isolated/lonely/socially anxious (N=630), and then again four months later (N=178), and six-nine months later (N=63). Being on the pathway was associated with increased group memberships between T0 and T1. The relationship between increased group memberships and quality-of-life was serially mediated by belonging, support, and loneliness. This study is the first to show that SP enhances health/well-being via SC mechanisms.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Health Psychology | ||||||
| Creators: | Wakefield, J., Kellezi, B., Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Bowe, M., Wilson, I., Halder, M. and Mair, E. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage | ||||||
| Date: | 23 July 2020 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1359-1053 | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||
| Date Added: | 06 Jul 2020 13:44 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:18 | ||||||
| URI: | http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40173 |
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