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ArticleBioscience2018

Urban Mind: Using Smartphone Technologies to Investigate the Impact of Nature on Mental Well-Being in Real Time.

Ioannis Bakolis, Ryan Hammoud, Michael Smythe, Johanna Gibbons, Neil Davidson, Stefania Tognin, Andrea Mechelli

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Article in Bioscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ioannis BakolisLecturer, PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, United Kingdom.
Ryan HammoudPhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, United Kingdom.
Michael SmytheArtist and action-based researcher at Nomad Projects (https://nomadprojects.org) in London, United Kingdom.
Johanna GibbonsLandscape architects at J & L Gibbons (http://jlg-london.com) in London, United Kingdom.
Neil DavidsonLandscape architects at J & L Gibbons (http://jlg-london.com) in London, United Kingdom.
Stefania TogninLecturer, PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, United Kingdom.
Andrea MechelliReader, PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6770-2934

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Existing evidence on the beneficial effects of nature on mental health comes from studies using cross-sectional designs. We developed a smartphone-based tool (Urban Mind;

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ecological momentary assessmentmental healthmental well-beingnaturesmartphones

Identifiers

PMID29599549
PMCPMC5862247

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