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Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

Effects of Walking in a Forest on Young Women.

Chorong Song, Harumi Ikei, Takahide Kagawa, Yoshifumi Miyazaki

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 8 of them syntheses that 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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Restorative Effects from Green Exposure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Control Trials.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  5. What Activities in Forests Are Beneficial for Human Health? A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  6. Effect of Forest Therapy on Depression and Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  7. How Should Forests Be Characterized in Regard to Human Health? Evidence from Existing Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  12. Effects of Urban Forest Therapy Program on Depression Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  15. Green Exercise: Can Nature Video Benefit Isometric Exercise?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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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

4 authors.

Chorong SongCenter for Environment, Health and Field Sciences, Chiba University, 6-2-1 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0882, Japan. crsong1028@chiba-u.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-1924-1053
Harumi IkeiCenter for Environment, Health and Field Sciences, Chiba University, 6-2-1 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0882, Japan. ikei0224@ffpri.affrc.go.jp.ORCID 0000-0001-5126-9198
Takahide KagawaForestry and Forest Products Research Institute,1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan. kagawa@ffpri.affrc.go.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-5889-1040
Yoshifumi MiyazakiCenter for Environment, Health and Field Sciences, Chiba University, 6-2-1 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0882, Japan. ymiyazaki@faculty.chiba-u.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-3170-6810

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effects of forest activities on health promotion have received increasing attention. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physiological and psychological effects of brief walks in forests on young women. The experiments were conducted in 6 forests (test) and 6 city areas (control). Overall, 12 participants in each area (60 participants in total, mean age: 21.0 ± 1.3 years) were instructed to walk in a forest and a city area for approximately 15 min; simultaneously, their heart rate variability, heart rate, blood pressure, and pulse rate were measured to quantify their physiological responses to walking. The modified semantic differential method, Profile of Mood States (POMS), and the State⁻Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were used to determine their psychological responses. Walking in a forest was associated with significantly higher parasympathetic nervous activity and lower sympathetic nervous activity and heart rate. In addition, scores for the comfortable, relaxed, and natural parameters and vigor subscale of POMS were significantly higher, whereas scores for negative feelings, such as tension⁻anxiety, depression⁻dejection, anger⁻hostility, fatigue, and confusion, were significantly lower, as were the total mood disturbance of POMS and the anxiety dimension of the STAI. The subjective evaluations were generally in accordance with the physiological responses. A brief walk in a forest resulted in physiological and psychological relaxation effects in young women.

Indexed as

ForestsHealth PromotionAdultAnxietyBlood PressureCitiesDepressionEmotionsFatigueFemaleHeart RateHumansRelaxationWalkingYoung Adultblood pressurebrief walksfemalesforest therapyheart rate variabilityProfile of Mood Statepulse ratesemantic differential methodshinrin-yokuState–Trait Anxiety Inventory

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PMID30650572
PMCPMC6351942

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