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Effectiveness Evaluation of Social Prescribing

NCT07029334 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 350

Last updated 2025-07-24

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Summary

Social Prescribing (SP), or Social Henvisning (SH) in Denmark, integrates healthcare with social and cultural services to address social determinants of health. The 'Social Prescribing Vesterbro-Sydhavnen' initiative, launched in fall 2024 as part of usual care, aims to involve general practitioners (GP) as primary prescribers to social services through a dedicated link worker, enhancing early intervention and connecting healthcare with community support.

This evaluation aims to assess the effectiveness of the 'Social Prescribing Vesterbro-Sydhavnen' project as part of the Implementation Research Programme SHINE.

The primary outcomes are: changes in contacts with general practice, unplanned hospital contacts and emergency calls (1813) as well as change in patients' perception of loneliness and health-related Quality of life.

Conditions

  • Loneliness
  • Health Related Quality of Life

Interventions

OTHER

Social Prescribing

The SP intervention consists of a series of intervention components delivered across the SP pathways: Intervention components GP: 1. Social prescribing from physician to patient Link Worker: 2. Initial phone contact 3. Clarification and follow-up consultations 4. Personalized matching with local services and activities 5. Care coordination 6. Introductory visits to local services and activities 7. Accompanied (if needed) 8. Follow-up conversations 9. Concluding conversations 10. Group-based courses GP / Link Worker: 11. Re-prescribing (where appropriate) Each intervention component is described in detail in the TIDieR checklist

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Volunteer Center Sydhavnen

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • GP cluster Vesterbro-Sydhavnen

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Hvidovre University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ove Andersen, Professor, MD · Department of Clinical Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre

  • Jeanette Wassar Kirk, PhD, Associate Professor · Department of Clinical Research, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-04
Primary Completion
2027-03-01
Completion
2027-03-01

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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