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ReviewBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Effects of Digital Nature Interventions on Positive Psychological Outcomes: A Scoping Review.

Dev Bandhu Poudel, Karl E Mitchell, Samjhana Acharya, Chandra Gurung, Yasuhiro Kotera

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Review in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Dev Bandhu PoudelDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, G. P. Koirala Memorial (Community) College, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.ORCID 0000-0002-3672-185X
Karl E MitchellSchool of Psychology, University of Derby, Derby DE22 1GB, UK.ORCID 0009-0008-2891-7458
Samjhana AcharyaCentral Department of Rural Development, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.ORCID 0009-0008-4173-0372
Chandra GurungDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, Brooklyn College, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.ORCID 0009-0009-4337-3134
Yasuhiro KoteraFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0251-0085

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: Digital nature, delivered through different media, has been proposed as a scalable substitute for physical nature exposure to support psychological well-being, especially in high-income countries. This scoping review aimed to map the evidence on digital nature interventions and positive psychological outcomes. (2) Methods: Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, we searched PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar, supplemented by AI search and citation tracking, for studies published between 2020 and 2025. The first search was conducted between 15 November 2025 and 25 December 2025 and revisited between 5 June 2026 and 10 June 2026. We included articles published in English in peer-reviewed journals with the full text available. (3) Results: Our search yielded 67 studies from diverse cultural settings in three categories: primary studies (

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digital natureimmersive technologymental healthnature connectednesspositive psychologyrestorativenessscoping reviewstress reductionvirtual realitywell-being

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PMID42510377
PMCPMC13405956

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