Targeted health promotion with guided nature walks or group exercise: a controlled trial in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contact with nature promotes wellbeing through diverse pathways, providing a potential way of supporting health especially in primary care, where patients commonly suffer from multimorbidity and poor general health. Social prescribing is a non-pharmaceutical approach for improving health as well as social inclusion. This field study explores and compares the effects of a nature-based and an exercise-based social prescribing scheme on mental wellbeing and sleep, in a primary care population.

Methods

Primary care patients identified to benefit from a general improvement to their health were recruited by nurses, doctors, or social workers to this non-randomized, intention-to-treat, pilot field-study. Participants (n = 79) chose between the group interventions,

SUBMITTER: Kolster A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10520711 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature