{"id":33025,"date":"2020-12-29T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=33025"},"modified":"2020-12-12T03:19:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T08:19:21","slug":"study-suggests-a-regular-dose-of-nature-may-improve-mental-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2020\/12\/study-suggests-a-regular-dose-of-nature-may-improve-mental-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests a regular dose of nature may improve mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"first\" class=\"lead\">A study published in\u00a0<em>Ecological Applications<\/em>\u00a0suggests that <strong>nature around one&#8217;s home may help mitigate some of the negative mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text\">\n<p>An online questionnaire survey completed by 3,000 adults in in Tokyo, Japan, quantified the lin<strong>k between five mental-health outcomes<\/strong> (depression, life satisfaction, subjective happiness, self-esteem, and loneliness) <strong>and two measures of nature experiences<\/strong> (frequency of greenspace use and green view through windows from home).<\/p>\n<p><strong>More frequent greenspace use and the existence of green window views from the home were associated with increased levels of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and subjective happiness, as well as decreased levels of depression and loneliness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our results suggest that nearby nature can serve as a buffer in decreasing the adverse impacts of a very stressful event on humans,&#8221; said lead author Masashi Soga, PhD, of The University of Tokyo. &#8220;Protecting natural environments in urban areas is important not only for the conservation of biodiversity, but also for the protection of human health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release: A study published in\u00a0Ecological Applications\u00a0suggests that nature around one&#8217;s home may help mitigate some of the negative mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. An&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2020\/12\/study-suggests-a-regular-dose-of-nature-may-improve-mental-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[526,345,349,10],"tags":[20,14,108,180,524,404,12,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33100,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33025\/revisions\/33100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}