Introduction
diabetes, anxiety, Cancer
CANCER, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, CHRONIC DISEASES, SECONDARY, DIABETES
Cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes remain some of the most important public health challenges worldwide.Community gardens (also known as allotment gardens) are a promising nature-based lifestyle intervention that might promote active, healthy, and socially engaged living, reducing risk factors for chronic diseases. Community gardens can be a nature-based solution that influences emotional, social, and environmental factors that interplay with individual behaviours. Community gardens are places where people garden collectively. The act of community gardening also offers structural opportunities for eating healthy diets and being active and a “setting for the mind” by providing a refuge from everyday stressorsAlthough qualitative and observational evidence show positive effects of community gardening on psychosocial outcomes and fruit and vegetable intake,The Community Activation for Prevention Study (CAPS) was designed to study the effect of community gardens on health behaviours and psychosocial outcomes among adults who are diverse in terms of age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Primary outcomes included diet, physical activity, and anthropometry, with secondary outcomes of perceived stress and anxiety.