A room with a green view: the importance of nearby nature for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic and its global response have resulted in unprecedented and rapid changes to most people's day-to-day lives. To slow the spread of the virus, governments have implemented the practice of physical distancing ("social distancing"), which includes isolation within the home with limited time spent outdoors. During this extraordinary time, nature around the home may play a key role in mitigating against adverse mental health outcomes due to the pandemic and the measures taken to address it. To assess whether this is the case, we conducted an online questionnaire survey (n = 3,000) in Tokyo, Japan, to quantify the association between five mental health outcomes (depression, life satisfaction, subjective happiness, self-esteem, and loneliness) and two measures of nature exper

SUBMITTER: Soga M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7744839 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature