Prescribing Time in Nature for Human Health and Well-Being: Study Protocol for Tailored Park Prescriptions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

eHealth technologies offer an efficient method to integrate park prescriptions into clinical practice by primary health care (PHC) providers to help patients improve their health via tailored, nature-based health behavior interventions. This paper describes the protocol of the GoalRx Prescription Intervention (GPI) which was designed to leverage community resources to provide tailored park prescriptions for PHC patients.

Methods

The GPI study was designed as a 3-arm, multi-site observational study. We enrolled low-income, rural adults either at-risk of or living with hypertension or diabetes (n = 75) from Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in two counties in North Carolina, USA into the 3-month intervention. Eligible participants self-selected

SUBMITTER: Schultz CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9343582 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature