SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2019
Immersive Nature-Experiences as Health Promotion Interventions for Healthy, Vulnerable, and Sick Populations? A Systematic Review and Appraisal of Controlled Studies.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 92 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Nature's Role in Outdoor Therapies: An Umbrella Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
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- Understanding the nature-wellbeing relationship in adults: a qualitative metasynthesis review.Wellbeing, space and society · 2026Review
- Household-level surrounding greenspace as a nature-based intervention for health recovery after occupational injury.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Reframing nature connectedness as a psychosocial mechanism for youth mental health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Bidirectional effect modification of greenness exposure and air pollution on ischemic stroke mortality across different temporal scales.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Concussion and the Autonomic, Immune, and Endocrine Systems: An Introduction to the Field and a Treatment Framework for Persisting Symptoms.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Review
- Nature-based interventions for individual, collective and planetary wellbeing: A protocol for a scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Greenspaces and Health: Scoping Review of studies in Europe.Public health reviews · 2024Article
- Nature in the Heart and Mind of the Beholder: Psycho-Emotional and EEG Differences in Perception of Virtual Nature Due to Gender.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A present from the forest: Focus group interviews on cancer survivors' forest experiences.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2022Article
- Mapping the Concept, Content, and Outcome of Family-Based Outdoor Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Problems: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Understanding the Role of Nature Engagement in Supporting Health and Wellbeing during COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
In this systematic review, we summarized and evaluated the evidence for effects of, and associations between, immersive nature-experience on mental, physical, and social health promotion outcomes. Immersive nature-experience was operationalized as non-competitive activities, both sedentary and active, occurring in natural environments removed from everyday environments. We defined health according to the World Health Organization's holistic and positive definition of health and included steady-state, intermediate, and health promotion outcomes. An electronic search was performed for Danish, English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish articles published between January 2004 and May 2017. Manual approaches, e.g., bibliographies from experts, supplemented the literature search. Data were extracted from 461 publications that met the inclusion criteria. To assess the status and quality of the evidence for health promotion effects of immersive nature-experience, we focused on the subset of studies based on controlled designs (
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