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Nature Walks or Exercise as a Group Activity, the Effect Well-being, Sleep and Activity.

NCT05893212 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 79

Last updated 2023-06-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Contact with nature promotes human wellbeing through diverse pathways, providing a potential way to support health especially in primary care, where patients commonly suffer from multimorbidity and poor general health. Social prescribing as a non-pharmaceutical treatment is a promising method to improve health as well as inclusion. This study explores and compares the effects of a nature based and an exercise based social prescribing scheme on mental wellbeing, physical activity and sleep, in a primary care population.

Conditions

  • Health Promotion
  • Multimorbidity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nature based facilitated group intervention

The Nature-group programme included learning more about local outdoor areas and nature itself, the biotopes visited were chosen to provide a various nature experience, including forests, farmland, lakes, and seashore. Accompanied by nature guides the group practiced simple sensorial exercises that enhance the contact with nature and its microbiome.

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise in group

The Sports-group participated in an exercise programme and met weekly in community sports facilities. Exercise we define as a planned, structured, repetitive, and purposeful form of physical activity that aims for improvement or maintenance of one or more components of physical fitness. The sports programme was planned and executed by professional sports leaders in cooperation with health professionals and included both aerobic and anaerobic exercise as well as team sports, content was planned according to current best practice and considered the participants physical ability.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Municipality of Sipoo, Health and Social services

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Luonnontie

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Helsinki

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Timo Partonen, MD, PhD · Research professor at Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-01
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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