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Contact with blue-green spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown beneficial for mental health.

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Findings can help decision-makers in developing potential future lockdown measures to mitigate the negative impacts, helping people to be more resilient and maintain better mental health, using the benefits that ecosystem services are providing.
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This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2021-02-20 and is currently open access. It has received 266 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health.

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Iconography : The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review

TL;DR: ThePHQ-9, GAD-7 and PHQ-15 are brief well-validated measures for detecting and monitoring depression, anxiety and somatization.

International encyclopedia of housing and home

TL;DR: This title contains over 500 entries, listed alphabetically, and grouped into seven categories, suitable for housing professionals, both academics and practitioners for teaching, discovery, and research needs.
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Back to nature: Norwegians sustain increased recreational use of urban green space months after the COVID-19 outbreak

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used mobile tracking data from 53,000 STRAVA users to explore the longevity of increases in recreational activity during the COVID-19 outbreak and the following lockdown measures during spring 2020.
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How can vegetation protect us from air pollution? A critical review on green spaces' mitigation abilities for air-borne particles from a public health perspective - with implications for urban planning.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of the state of science from a public health perspective is conducted, focusing on green spaces and air pollution, and the most recent reviews differentiate three mitigation mechanisms of green spaces for PM: deposition, dispersion and modification.
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Patient Health Questionnaire

TL;DR: Please complete both pages of this health questionnaire as fully and completely as possible, writing in any other information you feel would be helpful.
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The Patient Health Questionnaire Somatic, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptom Scales: a systematic review.

TL;DR: In this article, the psychometric and pragmatic characteristics of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9 depression, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)-7 anxiety and PHQ-15 somatic symptom scales are synthesized from two sources: (1) four multisite cross-sectional studies (three conducted in primary care and one in obstetric-gynecology practices) comprising 9740 patients, and (2) key studies from the literature that have studied these scales.
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Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe.

TL;DR: The results show that major non-pharmaceutical interventions and lockdown in particular have had a large effect on reducing transmission and continued intervention should be considered to keep transmission of SARS-CoV-2 under control.
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An ultra-brief screening scale for anxiety and depression: the PHQ-4.

TL;DR: The PHQ-4 is a valid ultra-brief tool for detecting both anxiety and depressive disorders and has a substantial effect on functional status that was independent of depression.
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Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and insomnia among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Early evidence suggests that a considerable proportion of HCWs experience mood and sleep disturbances during this outbreak, stressing the need to establish ways to mitigate mental health risks and adjust interventions under pandemic conditions.
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Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the history leading up to these publications and the subsequent debates, research, institutions, policies, on-the-ground actions, and controversies they triggered.
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Did lockdown affect mental health?

Based on 5,218 responses from 9 countries, we found that lockdown severity significantly affected mental health, while contact with nature helped people to cope with these impacts, especially for those under strict lockdown.