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

Table 3 Main results: Effect of a social prescription on number of return visits

	IRR for number of return visits
Variable	(1)	(2)
Social prescription (=1)	1.204*** (0.076)	1.166** (0.074)
Male (=1)		0.897 (0.064)
Age (in years)		0.997 (0.002)
Distance (in km)		0.978** (0.008)
Visited due to overweight		1.251*** (0.082)
Visit due to psychological concern (=1)		1.003 (0.173)
Observations	1734	1734

Negative binomial models are estimated. IRR is the incidence rate ratio defined as e^β, where β is the coefficient estimate. Robust standard errors are presented in parentheses
All the p-values have been replaced by stars and categorised as follows. ***: p < 0.01; **: p < 0.05; *: p < 0.10

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