Occupational Therapists as Social Prescribers: Insights from Swedish Primary Care.

All 10 informants were female, which may limit the range of perspectives captured. Most informants had limited experience with the social prescribing model at the time of interview, so their views may shift as they gain familiarity. The study captures one country's model (Sweden) and one specific implementation (SPiS); transferability to other health systems is uncertain. No outcome data are reported on whether loneliness was actually reduced in the patients these OTs prescribed for; the study is about the prescribers' experience, not the patients' outcomes. Digital interviews may have limited the depth of interaction compared with in-person conversations. Social-desirability bias is possible: informants were interviewed by a researcher from the same project they were participating in.

Funded by Umeå University. No industry funding, no author disclosures of competing interests, and no statement that a sponsor designed the study or wrote the manuscript.

Do not read this paper as evidence that social prescribing reduces loneliness in older adults. It is a qualitative study of ten occupational therapists' experiences of taking on the prescriber role; no patient outcomes (loneliness scores, participation rates, wellbeing measures) are reported. The SPiS project is explicitly a feasibility study, and the findings describe what the prescribers found easy or hard, not whether the intervention worked for the people it was meant to help.