Social Prescribing Evidence for Refugee Populations: A Rapid Realist Review

A rapid realist review synthesizing international evidence on social prescribing and social-capital interventions for refugee, asylum-seeker, and forcibly displaced populations from 2014 to 2024. The dataset, created by Victoria Touzel, contains findings from 39 studies out of 7,436 records, structured into Context-Mechanism-Outcome configurations and programme theories.

Use Cases

• Identifying effective intervention families for refugee health support based on the five identified approaches (barrier-reduction, co-produced navigation, etc.).
• Developing programme theories for social prescribing initiatives based on the 15 prioritized If-Then configurations.
• Analyzing the evidence strength for different stages of social prescribing based on the concentration of actionable insights in appointment and onward referral stages.
• Informing co-production and safety frameworks in service design based on the three identified cross-cutting concepts.

Strengths

• Evidence synthesis is based on 39 studies identified from a systematic search of 7,436 records.
• Findings are structured into five distinct intervention families and 15 prioritized programme theories.
• The review methodology is RAMESES-compliant and supported by an expert advisory board.
• Data is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description notes evidence limitations restrict wider generalizability, particularly regarding population reporting and marginalized subgroups.
• The dataset is small (40.7 KB), indicating limited raw data scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

RAMESES-compliant rapid realist review of six databases, grey literature, and citation chasing.

Time Range

2014–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026 05 08 05:48:30.

Geography

International evidence