Linking Social Prescribing and Lifestyle Redesign®: A Step Toward Health and Equity?
Marie-Hélène Lévesque, Mya Fischer, Mélanie Levasseur
This is a theoretical paper arguing that social prescribing and Lifestyle Redesign share enough ground for OTs to bridge them.
It summarizes ten existing reviews of social prescribing evidence and proposes three ways to link the two frameworks. No original participants, no intervention, no outcomes.
What this paper is
This is a theoretical paper proposing how social prescribing and Lifestyle Redesign could be linked in occupational therapy practice. It synthesizes findings from ten existing systematic reviews of social prescribing and argues for OTs' potential role in both frameworks. It reports no original participants, no intervention, and no outcomes of its own, so there is no finding here to change practice on. The evidence it discusses belongs to the reviews it summarizes.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the proposed linkages between social prescribing and Lifestyle Redesign as tested interventions. The paper is a theoretical argument, and the evidence it summarizes comes from reviews of small, uncontrolled studies with high risk of bias.
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