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Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea
Various effects of forest healing on health have been reported, but a certification system to assess the effectiveness of forest healing programs does not exist. In this study, a systematic review (SR) on the “health benefits of forests” and “meta-analysis of forest therapy” was conducted after anal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508093/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639668 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910368 |
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author | Park, Sujin Kim, Soojin Kim, Geonwoo Choi, Yeji Kim, Eunsoo Paek, Domyung |
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description | Various effects of forest healing on health have been reported, but a certification system to assess the effectiveness of forest healing programs does not exist. In this study, a systematic review (SR) on the “health benefits of forests” and “meta-analysis of forest therapy” was conducted after analyzing the status and level of evidence of 75 forest healing programs that were conducted post-certification in South Korea. The SR for “health benefits of forests” distinguished between activities and time, resulting in 90.9% of walking activities for more than an hour under psychological health, and 100.0% of exercise activities for less than an hour under physiological health. However, the effect of indirect activities performed for more than an hour was unknown. Thus, we confirmed that many indoor activities in the field had low effect size or no established basis regarding the feasibility of its operation. The SR on “meta-analysis of forest therapy” to check whether the program was effective. The highest number of healing effects were obtained for blood pressure (32), followed by psychological depression (24). The findings of this can serve as baseline data to facilitate future development and dissemination of evidence-based forest healing programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-85080932021-10-13 Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea Park, Sujin Kim, Soojin Kim, Geonwoo Choi, Yeji Kim, Eunsoo Paek, Domyung Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Various effects of forest healing on health have been reported, but a certification system to assess the effectiveness of forest healing programs does not exist. In this study, a systematic review (SR) on the “health benefits of forests” and “meta-analysis of forest therapy” was conducted after analyzing the status and level of evidence of 75 forest healing programs that were conducted post-certification in South Korea. The SR for “health benefits of forests” distinguished between activities and time, resulting in 90.9% of walking activities for more than an hour under psychological health, and 100.0% of exercise activities for less than an hour under physiological health. However, the effect of indirect activities performed for more than an hour was unknown. Thus, we confirmed that many indoor activities in the field had low effect size or no established basis regarding the feasibility of its operation. The SR on “meta-analysis of forest therapy” to check whether the program was effective. The highest number of healing effects were obtained for blood pressure (32), followed by psychological depression (24). The findings of this can serve as baseline data to facilitate future development and dissemination of evidence-based forest healing programs. MDPI 2021-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8508093/ /pubmed/34639668 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910368 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Park, Sujin Kim, Soojin Kim, Geonwoo Choi, Yeji Kim, Eunsoo Paek, Domyung Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea |
title | Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea |
title_full | Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea |
title_fullStr | Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea |
title_full_unstemmed | Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea |
title_short | Evidence-Based Status of Forest Healing Program in South Korea |
title_sort | evidence-based status of forest healing program in south korea |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508093/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639668 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910368 |
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