Predictors of social isolation among patients who are in contact with South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust

There has been a growing realisation among policy makers and practitioners that social relations play an influential role in mental health and psychological wellbeing and that service users themselves place high importance on them. Feelings of loneliness are greater and social network size is smaller among mental health service users than in the general population, especially among older people. The link between social isolation and hospital admission is not well explored, although social isolation is known to have negative health effects. Our project aim to explore factors associated hospitalisation and survival/ death among socially isolated patients with mental health conditions who are in contact with SLaM NHS Foundation Trust. Furthermore, we aim to investigate whether social isolation is a predictor of hospitalisation and survival with mental health conditions who are in contact with SLaM NHS Foundation Trust.