Is Brief Exposure to Green Space in School the Best Option to Improve Attention in Children?

ABSTRACT: The positive effects of Green Spaces on health are thought to be achieved through the mechanisms of mitigation, instoration and restoration. One of the benefits of Green Spaces may be the restoration of attention and so the objective of this research is testing empirically whether exposure to a green environment improves attention in school children. For so doing, we first used a split-unit statistical design in each of four schools, then combined the primary results via meta-analysis. The Attention Network Test (ANT) was used to measure attention before and after exposure and a total of 167 seven-year-old students participated in the experiments. Overall, our experimental results do not support the hypothesis that students' exposure to activities in green vs. grey spaces affected their pe

SUBMITTER: Anabitarte A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8304383 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature