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

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.

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.