What is the impact of introducing a non-clinical community health advice and navigation service on the demand for primary care in socially deprived areas? Evidence from an observational panel study with difference-in-differences design.

Objectives: To examine the effect of introducing a non-clinical community health advice and navigation service on the demand for primary care in a socially deprived area.

Design: Observational panel study with difference-in-differences design. We conducted fixed-effects negative binomial regressions to compare changes in the number of visits to general practitioners (GPs) in individuals who visited the health advice and navigation service and a matched control group of individuals who did not visit the service.

Factors associated with patient activation in a socially deprived population: Evidence from Germany.

Objective: Patient activation has been identified as a crucial determinant of health, but little is known about its own determinants, particularly in low socioeconomic status populations. To address this research gap, we analyzed factors that might explain variation in patient activation in such a population.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional patient survey (n = 582) in a low socioeconomic status urban district in Germany in 2017.

Once is rarely enough: can social prescribing facilitate adherence to non-clinical community and voluntary sector health services? Empirical evidence from Germany.

Background: Non-clinical health interventions provided by the voluntary and community sector can improve patients' health and well-being and reduce pressure on primary and secondary care, but only if patients adhere to them. This study provides novel insights into the impact of doctor referrals to such services, known as social prescribing, on patients' adherence to them.

Methods: Using a negative binomial model, we analysed electronic visitor records from a community health advice and navigation service in Germany between January 2018 and December 2019 to determine whether social prescribing was associated with greater adherence to the service (measured in terms of return visits) compared to patients who self-referred.

A systematic scoping review of psychosocial and psychological factors associated with patient activation.

Objective: Patient activation has been identified as an important predictor of how patients manage their own health, but little is known about its determinants. In this scoping review, we aim to address this research gap by (1) identifying literature on psychosocial/psychological factors associated with patient activation, and (2) extracting and synthesizing major results reported on that relationship.

Methods: Using a systematic search of four electronic databases (Web of Science, PubMed, PsychInfo, CINAHL), our search algorithm combined related terms for "psychosocial factors" or "psychological factors" and "patient activation".