Culturally sensitive social prescribing and frailty prevention: a co-produced community research project

Project Director: Professor Chris Dayson
Project Duration: 2023-2024

This project aimed to co-produce and pilot a methodology for researching the role of social prescribing within frailty prevention. Funded by Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) Research and Innovation Fund (SHRIF), the project brought together the expertise of researchers from SHU from different disciplines, practitioners from Darnall Well Being (DWB) - a community health organisation - and community researchers – residents of Darnall, a community in Sheffield, UK, trained in qualitative research skills to research people from their own communities.

The main outputs from the project were:

• A summary of the key findings from the research.
• A main report setting out the methodology alongside analysis, key findings and recommendations.
• Community researcher feedback on different measures that can be used to test for frailty and evaluate interventions.
• An event on culturally sensitive approaches social prescribing involving community members, practitioners, policy makers and researchers. An artist-in-residence captured the key messages on the day.
• A short film about the project.