NCT06622629

Nature Based Therapy With Mindful Walks in Urban Coastal Setting - Barcelona (Spain)

NATURE-based Therapy in Urban Coast in Barcelona (NATURE-MET-B)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Barcelona Institute for Global Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The main objective of the NATURE-MET-B (Barcelona) study is to analyze the effects of a Nature-based Therapy (NbT) on the biopsychological resilience of adults general population through changes in: i) health-related quality of life and ii) allostatic load (physiological stress). The secondary objective is to provide data on the environmental, social, and economic aspects of the intervention in order to refine specific prevention programs and establish programs that include NbT as a secondary preventive measure in healthcare. Analogous to NATURE-MET-B, two similar NbT studies will be carried out in Padua (Italy) and Salzburg (Austria) for the secondary prevention of Metabolic Syndrom (MetS). These are not multicenter studies but three comparable studies with similar inclusion and exclusion criteria in all study locations. Only the types of landscape and natural exposure sites differ: Barcelona-Coastal Urban, Padua-Urban Green, Salzburg-Mountainous Rural.

Conditions

• Healthy Participants

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nature based Therapy (NbT): Planned therapeutic techniques performed in natural settings and based on nature-human active participation and connection	The intervention consists of a 5-week (35-day) conscious immersion treatment in a natural coastal urban environment, involving approximately three sessions per week of semi-structured walking and mindfulness exercises lasting 60 minutes. Following this, there will be a follow-up period that will end 5 weeks after the intervention has concluded (day 70). Participants will document and evaluate the therapy sessions at the location where the mindfulness exercises take place, using the mobile phone application App, a digital tool for assessing the environment and health. The aim is to integrate nature-based physical activity and relaxation sessions into daily life. The intervention will be standardized as much as possible to allow comparison of the results with those from the other study centers in Salzburg (Vienna) and Padua (Italy).
OTHER	Waiting List	Participants in the control group will be offered the opportunity to benefit from the NbT once the follow-up period is completed (day 70).

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-09-02
• Primary completion: 2025-07-30
• Completion: 2025-10-22
• First posted: 2024-10-02
• Last updated: 2025-12-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain