Nature based solution for improving mental health and well-being in urban areas
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2017
Аутори
Vujcić, MajaTomićević-Dubljević, Jelena
Grbić, Mihailo
Lečić-Toševski, Dušica
Vuković, Olivera
Tošković, Oliver
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The general disproportion of urban development and the socio-economical crisis in Serbia, followed by a number of acute and chronic stressors, as well as years of accumulated trauma, prevented the parallel physical, mental and social adaptation of society as a whole. These trends certainly affected the quality of mental health and wellbeing, particularly on the vulnerable urban population, increasing the absolute number of people with depression, stress and psychosomatic disorders. This study was pioneering in Serbia and was conducted in collaboration with the Faculty of Forestry, the Institute of Mental Health and the Botanical Garden in Belgrade, in order to understand how spending time and performing horticulture therapy in specially designed urban green environments can improve mental health. The participants were psychiatric patients (n = 30), users of the day hospital of the Institute who were randomly selected for the study, and the control group, assessed for depression, anxiet...y and stress before and after the intervention, using a DASS21 scale. During the intervention period the study group stayed in the Botanical garden and participated in a special programme of horticulture therapy. In order to exclude any possible "special treatment" or "placebo effect", the control group was included in occupational art therapy while it continued to receive conventional therapy. The test results indicated that nature based therapy had a positive influence on the mental health and well-being of the participants. Furthermore, the difference in the test results of the subscale stress before and after the intervention for the study group was F1.28 = 5.442 and p lt ;.05. According to socio demographic and clinical variables, the interesting trend was recorded on the subscale of anxiety showing that the male participants in the study group were more anxious, with the most pronounced inflection noted on this scale after treatment. The results of this study have shown that recuperation from stress, depression and anxiety was possible and much more complete when participants were involved in horticulture therapy as a nature-based solution for improving mental health.
Кључне речи:
Serbia / Psychiatric patients / Nature based therapy / Mental health and well-being / City of Belgrade / Botanical gardenИзвор:
Environmental Research, 2017, 158, 385-392Издавач:
- Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego
Финансирање / пројекти:
- Истраживање климатских промена и њиховог утицаја на животну средину - праћење утицаја, адаптација и ублажавање (RS-MESTD-Integrated and Interdisciplinary Research (IIR or III)-43007)
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.06.030
ISSN: 0013-9351
PubMed: 28688269
WoS: 000408184700042
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85021729083
Институција/група
Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Vujcić, Maja AU - Tomićević-Dubljević, Jelena AU - Grbić, Mihailo AU - Lečić-Toševski, Dušica AU - Vuković, Olivera AU - Tošković, Oliver PY - 2017 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2340 AB - The general disproportion of urban development and the socio-economical crisis in Serbia, followed by a number of acute and chronic stressors, as well as years of accumulated trauma, prevented the parallel physical, mental and social adaptation of society as a whole. These trends certainly affected the quality of mental health and wellbeing, particularly on the vulnerable urban population, increasing the absolute number of people with depression, stress and psychosomatic disorders. This study was pioneering in Serbia and was conducted in collaboration with the Faculty of Forestry, the Institute of Mental Health and the Botanical Garden in Belgrade, in order to understand how spending time and performing horticulture therapy in specially designed urban green environments can improve mental health. The participants were psychiatric patients (n = 30), users of the day hospital of the Institute who were randomly selected for the study, and the control group, assessed for depression, anxiety and stress before and after the intervention, using a DASS21 scale. During the intervention period the study group stayed in the Botanical garden and participated in a special programme of horticulture therapy. In order to exclude any possible "special treatment" or "placebo effect", the control group was included in occupational art therapy while it continued to receive conventional therapy. The test results indicated that nature based therapy had a positive influence on the mental health and well-being of the participants. Furthermore, the difference in the test results of the subscale stress before and after the intervention for the study group was F1.28 = 5.442 and p lt ;.05. According to socio demographic and clinical variables, the interesting trend was recorded on the subscale of anxiety showing that the male participants in the study group were more anxious, with the most pronounced inflection noted on this scale after treatment. The results of this study have shown that recuperation from stress, depression and anxiety was possible and much more complete when participants were involved in horticulture therapy as a nature-based solution for improving mental health. PB - Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego T2 - Environmental Research T1 - Nature based solution for improving mental health and well-being in urban areas EP - 392 SP - 385 VL - 158 DO - 10.1016/j.envres.2017.06.030 ER -
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Vujcić, M., Tomićević-Dubljević, J., Grbić, M., Lečić-Toševski, D., Vuković, O.,& Tošković, O.. (2017). Nature based solution for improving mental health and well-being in urban areas. in Environmental Research Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego., 158, 385-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.06.030
Vujcić M, Tomićević-Dubljević J, Grbić M, Lečić-Toševski D, Vuković O, Tošković O. Nature based solution for improving mental health and well-being in urban areas. in Environmental Research. 2017;158:385-392. doi:10.1016/j.envres.2017.06.030 .
Vujcić, Maja, Tomićević-Dubljević, Jelena, Grbić, Mihailo, Lečić-Toševski, Dušica, Vuković, Olivera, Tošković, Oliver, "Nature based solution for improving mental health and well-being in urban areas" in Environmental Research, 158 (2017):385-392, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.06.030 . .