Testing a Nature-based Social Intervention on Loneliness: the RECETAS-BCN Trial

"The nature-based social prescribing is a multicomponent complex intervention applied by health or social care professionals as facilitators after a specific training.~It comprises: a psychosocial component and nature-based activities.~The psychosocial component is adapted from the group dynamic of Circle of Friends methodology focused on loneliness (Jansson A, Pitkälä KH, 2021) adapted to the cultural context of Barcelona and the target population of adults living in urban socio-economic vulnerable areas.~Nature-based activities are chosen by group participants through a co-created menu comprising all local resources in the area related to nature.~Specifically, participants start with an individual one-to-one session and then they meet once a week for two hours 10 weeks. Each week, participants decide the nature-based activity they wish to conduct."

Social prescribing as existing in usual care plus a written menu with the list of nature-based activities in the area.