The potentials of digital technology in social prescribing: a qualitative study of key stakeholders’ perspectives | BMC Public Health

Characteristics of study participants Table 1 depicts the characteristics of study participants. Table 1 Study participants’ characteristics (N = 18) Themes developed from the analysis As shown in Table 2, we identified eight main themes—four reflecting the advantages of digital social prescribing and four outlining its challenges, each with 2–4 subthemes. Table 2 Themes and Sub-themes of respondents’ viewpoint … Read more

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