START DATE AND DURATION: March 2024 - October 2027
Summary
Social prescribing is a mechanism of care aimed to address health inequalities by linking patients with non-medical forms of existing support within their local communities.
A recent review concluded that there was promise of the benefits of it for loneliness, but that social prescribing should be in locations which are accessible to young people (such as community centres and schools.
The INACT study will evaluate the acceptability, suitability, and feasibility of a social prescribing pathway via schools for loneliness, and if positive, will evaluate the pathway to explore the clinical effectiveness, using a pragmatic, individually randomised, superiority trial.
