Wakefield 2020 [26]	Was the study question or objective clearly stated?	Yes	The study states hypotheses but doesn’t state objectives.
	Were eligibility/selection criteria for the study population prespecified and clearly described?	Yes
	Were the participants in the study representative of those who would be eligible for the test/service/intervention in the general or clinical population of interest?	No
	Were all eligible participants that met the prespecified entry criteria enrolled?	Not reported
	Was the sample size sufficiently large to provide confidence in the findings?	No
	Was the test/service/intervention clearly described and delivered consistently across the study population?	Yes	The social prescribing programme could have been described in more detail
	Were the outcome measures prespecified, clearly defined, valid, reliable, and assessed consistently across all study participants?	No
	Were the people assessing the outcomes blinded to the participants’ exposures/interventions?	Yes
	Was the loss to follow-up after baseline 20% or less? Were those lost to follow-up accounted for in the analysis?	Yes	72.8% lost to the first follow-up after baseline and 90.3% lost after the second follow-up after baseline. Lost to follow-up were accounted for using a Bonferroni-corrected between-groups t-test to compare those followed up and those who were not followed up.
	Did the statistical methods examine changes in outcome measures from before to after the intervention? Were statistical tests done that provided p values for the pre-to-post changes?	No
	Were outcome measures of interest taken multiple times before the intervention and multiple times after the intervention (i.e., did they use an interrupted time-series design)?	Yes	Outcome measures were only taken once at pre and post intervention follow-ups.
	If the intervention was conducted at a group level (e.g., a whole hospital, a community, etc.) did the statistical analysis take into account the use of individual-level data to determine effects at the group level?	N/A