How does the evaluation work?

The service evaluation involves completing two short questionnaires.

• The first questionnaire is to find out some background information about you and your health and wellbeing. You complete this before you take part in the activity in nature.
• The second questionnaire focuses more on your experience of the nature activity you took part in. You complete this after you have finished taking part in the nature activity, or at 3 months after you started the activity (whichever is sooner).

You will complete the questionnaires after you have filled out the consent form to take part in the service evaluation. Please be assured that the person helping you with the questionnaire will be led by what you are happy to answer.

It is your decision whether you wish to take part in the service evaluation. If you do choose to take part and then change your mind, you can stop your participation at any time, without needing to provide a reason.

The service evaluation involves thinking about your mental and physical health and for some people this may bring up difficult feelings. Please be assured that the person helping you with the questionnaires will be led by what you are happy to answer.

If you have any further questions about the service evaluation, please feel free to contact the research team. Any of them would be happy to talk through the details and answer any questions you may have. Please also contact the research team if you feel there are any challenges for you in taking part.

All your personal details and information you provide will be kept strictly confidential and stored securely. Your personal details such as your name and contact details will be stored separately from the information you provide on the questionnaires.

All information you provide on the questionnaire is anonymous. You will not need to provide any personal information, such as your name. Any information that might identify you will be removed, so you cannot be recognised.

See our Participant Information Sheet 2. How we Manage your Information (PDF , 191kb) about how we will manage and store your data.

You can also ask for your information to be removed from the service evaluation up to two weeks after you have completed the second questionnaire, by contacting the researchers.

We plan to publish the findings in -

• a report to the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
• an academic journal (which will be free to read) and present them at academic conferences

We will also share our findings with a national team who are assessing green social prescribing activities across England.