A walk to the river: nature and student mental health
The author L. Beavington explores outdoor learning for post-secondary students and the many health benefits of nature experience and engaging with nature. Read the article abstract (published online 13 October 2024) in the Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.
Connection to nature helps your mental health
Read this Mental Health Foundation Report 2021 ‘Nature: How connecting with nature benefits our mental health’. The key message of this research evidence is a need to focusing on how people can tune in and connect with ‘everyday’ nature close to home through simple activities.
How Natural Spaces Nurture the Brain
This article (23 May 2024) published in brainfacts.org online discusses how brain health is supported by being in green and blue spaces outdoors.
Peer perspectives: the role of youth advisor investigators in school mental health research
This study is led by a Research Associate at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. It explores how schools, their surroundings, buildings, and social interactions affect young people's mental health. Claire Goodfellow, members of the SOCITS [...]
Children who spend more time in natural environments have significantly better mental health
This innovative study was carried out by researchers at MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences, University of Glasgow. The study, which used GPS and accelerometer tracking, found that the benefits of spending time in nature were strongest for children from lower-income households. Children who spent just 60 minutes daily in [...]
Children facing a ‘brutal’ loss of time and space for play at state schools
School Outdoor Learning have shared this article in The Guardian (17 June 2024). This describes how shorter playtimes and shrinking outside space in England have serious implications for children’s wellbeing and mental health.
Greenspaces help reduce the risk of early anxiety and depressive symptoms in children
Greenspace Scotland’s latest bulletin has included this cohort study of 2103 children in 41 states across the US.
Prescribing a dose of Vitamin N
Read this Children & Nature Network feature story, where a Canadian primary care provider and medical consultant, shares his personal experience with nature prescriptions and the profound impact they can have on youth well-being.
